Treasury of Scripture
(Title.) This is the third alphabetical Psalm. It seems to have been intended as an instructive and consoling ode for the captives in Babylon, who might feel themselves severely tempted when they saw those idolaters in prosperity, and themselves in adversity.
Fret
Psalm 37:1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.
1 Samuel 1:6-8 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb...
Proverbs 19:3 The foolishness of man perverts his way: and his heart frets against the LORD.
Proverbs 24:1,19 Be not you envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them...
neither
Psalm 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Proverbs 3:31 Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 23:17 Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Galatians 5:21 Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past...
James 4:5,6 Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy...