Proverbs 24:17
Do not rejoice in the falling of your enemy, || And do not let your heart be joyful in his stumbling,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
In Context
16For the righteous fall and rise seven [times], || And the wicked stumble in evil.
18Lest YHWH see, and [it be] evil in His eyes, || And He has turned His anger from off him.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:5And King David has come to Bahurim, and behold, a man there is coming out, of the family of the house of Saul, and his name [is] Shimei, son of Gera, he comes out, coming out and reviling;
Psalms 35:15And they have rejoiced in my halting, || And have been gathered together, || The strikers were gathered against me, || And I have not known, || They have torn, and they have not ceased;
Psalms 42:10With a sword in my bones || My adversaries have reproached me, || In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”
Obadiah 1:12And—you do not look on the day of your brother, || On the day of his alienation, || Nor do you rejoice over sons of Judah, || In the day of their destruction, || Nor make your mouth great in a day of distress.
1 Corinthians 13:6[does] not rejoice over unrighteousness, and rejoices 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 →