17Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
18For 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 notאַל־H408Adverblet your heartלִ֭בְּךָH3820Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularenvyיְקַנֵּ֣אH7065Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singularsinnersבַּֽחַטָּאִ֑יםH2400Preposition-b, Article | Adjective - masculine pluralbutכִּ֥יH3588Conjunction. . .אִם־H518Conjunctionalways continueכָּל־H3605Noun - masculine singular construct. . .הַיּֽוֹם׃H3117Article | Noun - masculine singularin the fearבְּיִרְאַת־H3374Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular constructof the LORDיְ֝הוָ֗הH3068Noun - proper - masculine singular
Verse 18
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Forכִּ֭יH3588Conjunctionsurelyאִם־H518Conjunctionthere isיֵ֣שׁH3426Adverba futureאַחֲרִ֑יתH319Noun - feminine singularand your hopeוְ֝תִקְוָתְךָ֗H8615Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singularwill notלֹ֣אH3808Adverb - Negative particlebe cut offתִכָּרֵֽת׃H3772Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular