Proverbs 3:31 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

³¹ Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Do not resentfully envy and be jealous of an unscrupulous, grasping man, and choose none of his ways. [Ps. 37:1; 73:3; Prov. 24:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Envy thou not the man of violence, And choose none of his ways.

Common English Bible

³¹ Don’t envy violent people or choose any of their ways.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Do not rival an unjust man, and do not imitate his ways.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Envy not the unjust man, and do not follow his ways:

Proverbs 3:31 Cross References

Psalm 37:1

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

Proverbs 23:17

Let not thine heart envy sinners; but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.

Proverbs 24:1

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them:

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Galatians 5:21

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.