Proverbs 24:16
For the righteous fall and rise seven [times], || And the wicked stumble in evil.
Literal Standard 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
Cross References
Numbers 32:23And if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against YHWH, and know that your sin finds you;
1 Samuel 31:4and Saul says to the bearer of his weapons, “Draw your sword, and pierce me with it, lest they come—these uncircumcised—and have pierced me, and rolled themselves on me”; and the bearer of his weapons has not been willing, for he is greatly afraid, and Saul takes the sword, and falls on it.
Job 5:19In six distresses He delivers you, || And in seven evil does not strike on you.
Psalms 34:19Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous, || YHWH delivers him out of them all.
Psalms 52:5Also—God breaks you down forever, || Takes you, and pulls you out of the tent, || And He has uprooted you || Out of the land of the living. Selah.
Proverbs 13:21Evil pursues sinners, || And good repays the righteous.
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 →