Psalm 37/Notes/Grammar.v. 8.650260

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Alternatively, אַךְ לְהָרֵעַ might be "a clause to itself (cf. Prov 11:24; 21:5; 22:16): it tends only to evil-doing, it ends only in thy involving thyself in sin" (Delitzsch 1996, 283). Cf. NIV: "do not fret--it leads only to evil" (so ESV, NLT, NET, etc.).