17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 23:17-18
Guarded Desire, Wise Discipline, the Fear of the LORD, and Warnings Against Envy, Gluttony, Lust, and Drunkenness
The chapter moves through warnings about appetite and wealth, discernment at corrupt tables, protection of boundaries and the fatherless, heart-applied instruction and discipline, parental joy, fear of the LORD over envy, warnings against gluttony and drunkenness, honoring parents, buying truth, sexual purity, and a final extended portrait of wine's deceptive destruction.
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Verse 17
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Do not אַל־ H408 Adverb let your heart לִ֭בְּךָ H3820 Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular envy יְקַנֵּ֣א H7065 Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular sinners בַּֽחַטָּאִ֑ים H2400 Preposition-b, Article | Adjective - masculine plural but כִּ֥י H3588 Conjunction . . . אִם־ H518 Conjunction always continue כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct . . . הַיּֽוֹם׃ H3117 Article | Noun - masculine singular in the fear בְּיִרְאַת־ H3374 Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct of the LORD יְ֝הוָ֗ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular
Verse 18
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For כִּ֭י H3588 Conjunction surely אִם־ H518 Conjunction there is יֵ֣שׁ H3426 Adverb a future אַחֲרִ֑ית H319 Noun - feminine singular and your hope וְ֝תִקְוָתְךָ֗ H8615 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular will not לֹ֣א H3808 Adverb - Negative particle be cut off תִכָּרֵֽת׃ H3772 Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular