“Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.”
The psalmist opens with a wise exhortation: 'Do not fret because of evildoers or be envious of those who do wrong.' The verb 'fret' suggests the anxiety and disturbance that arises from witnessing injustice and the apparent success of the wicked. The exhortation not to be envious suggests that the temptation facing the righteous is to desire to imitate the wicked and share in their apparent prosperity. The opening establishes the fundamental problem the psalm addresses: the righteous facing the injustice of the world.
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