Proverbs 24:17
At the fall of thy enemy do not rejoice; and at his stumbling let not thy heart be glad:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
In Context
18Lest the Lord see it and it be displeasing in his eyes, and he turn away from him his wrath.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:5And when King David came as far as Bachurim, behold, there came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shim'i, the son of Gera, coming forth, and cursing.
Psalms 35:15But in my downfall they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; there gathered themselves together against me abject wretches, whom I knew not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms 42:10(42:11) It is as death in my bones, when my assailants reproach me; when they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Obadiah 1:12But thou shouldst not have looked on [pleased] at the day of thy brother, on the day that he was delivered up to strangers; neither shouldst thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction; nor should thou have spoken proudly on the day of distress.
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 →