Proverbs 24:16
For the just one will fall seven times, and he shall rise again. But the impious will fall into evil.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
In Context
15Do not lie in wait, and do not seek impiety in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.
17When your enemy will fall, do not be glad, and do not let your heart exult in his ruin,
Cross References
Numbers 32:23But if you do not do what you have said, no one could doubt that you will have sinned against God. And know this: your sin shall overtake you.
1 Samuel 31:4Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and strike me, otherwise these uncircumcised may come and kill me, mocking me.” And his armor bearer was not willing. For he had been struck with an exceedingly great fear. And so, Saul took his own sword, and he fell upon it.
Job 5:19He will deliver you into six tribulations, and in the seventh, evil will not touch you.
Psalms 34:19May those who are my unjust adversaries not be glad over me: those who have hated me without cause, and who nod agreement with their eyes.
Psalms 52:5Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread?
Proverbs 13:21Evil pursues sinners. And good things shall be distributed to the just.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:16-17
Cautions against Envy. 15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place: 16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. This is spoken, not so much by way of counsel to wicked men (they will not receive instruction, ch. xxiii. 9 ), but rather in defiance of them, for the encouragement of good people that are threatened by them. See here, 1. The designs of the wicked against the righteous, and the success they… Read the whole commentary →