Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Envy thou not the man of violence, And choose none of his ways.
Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
Envy thou not the man of violence, and choose none of his ways.
Envy thou not the oppressor - O how bewitching is power! Every man desires it; and yet all hate tyrants. But query, if all had power, would not the major part be tyrants?
A protest against the tendency to worship success, to think the lot of the "man of violence" enviable, and therefore to be chosen.
3:31 Envy not - For his impunity and success.