Proverbs 24:17
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
In Context
18Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:5And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and cursed still as he came.
Psalms 35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms 42:10As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Obadiah 1:12But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress.
1 Corinthians 13:6rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
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 →