Solomon
Proverbs 24:1BSB·traditional attribution
Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;
Geneva Bible Notes Reformed
They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (q) Though drunkenness makes them more insensible then beasts, yet they can not refrain.
Commenting on Proverbs 24:1-6
Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran
Pro 24:1-2 After this divergence (in Pro 23:29-35) from the usual form of the proverb, there is now a return to the tetrastich: 1 Envy not evil men, And desire not to have intercourse with them. 2 For their heart thinketh of violence, And their lips speak mischief.
Commenting on Proverbs 24:1-2