Proverbs 24:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־תְּ֭קַנֵּא בְּאַנְשֵׁ֣י רָעָ֑ה וְאַל־תִּ֝תְאָ֗יו לִהְי֥וֹת אִתָּֽם׃

Transliteration

Not təqannēʾ in ʾanšê rāʿāh and-not titəʾāw lihyôt with-them

Grammar Details

• *təqannēʾ*: Piel imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - be envious/jealous
• *ʾanšê*: construct state, masculine plural - men of
• *rāʿāh*: feminine singular noun - evil/wickedness
• *titəʾāw*: Hithpael imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - desire/crave
• *lihyôt*: Qal infinitive construct with preposition - to be

Word Meanings

• *təqannēʾ*: be envious/jealous/zealous
• *rāʿāh*: evil/wickedness/calamity
• *titəʾāw*: desire strongly/crave/long for

Referenced Verses

• Ps 37:1 : 1 <Of David.> Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.
• Prov 3:31 : 31 Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.
• Prov 23:17 : 17 Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;
• Prov 24:19 : 19 Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:
• Ps 37:7 : 7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
• Ps 73:3 : 3 Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.
• Prov 1:11-15 : 11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; 13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth; 14 Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag: 15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
• Prov 13:20 : 20 Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
• Gen 13:10-13 : 10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar. 11 So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another. 12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
• Gen 19:1-9 : 1 And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth. 2 And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street. 3 But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took. 4 But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town; 5 And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them. 6 And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him. 7 And he said, My brothers, do not this evil. 8 See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof. 9 And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in. 10 But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again. 11 But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.
• Ps 26:9 : 9 Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;
• Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses, 20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings, 21 Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
• Jas 4:5-6 : 5 Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us? 6 But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.