Proverbs 24:1-2

1 Do not envy the wicked, do not desire their company;
2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about making trouble.

Envy against evil men is desiring and begrudging their pleasure and prosperity in sin. It is thinking that holy living is too strict. It includes desire to be with the wicked and share their joys. But such thoughts forget the depravity of their empty lives and the coming Judgment, when the righteous will be rewarded and the wicked destroyed.

The world is perverse and getting worse. Society has not had a profitable moral thought in generations. Why envy them?

Application

What are some patterns of the world which are against God’s standards? Pray through it for God to protect our family, friends….