Proverbs 24:16

For the righteous person falls down seven times and rises again, 1 but wicked people are brought down by calamity. 1

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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 like the wicked person 1 who attacks the house of the righteous person. 1 Do not destroy his home! 1

17Do not celebrate when your enemy falls 1 and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, 1

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Cross References

Numbers 32:23But if you do not do so, look, you will have sinned against Yahweh. Be sure that your sin will find you out.

1 Samuel 31:4Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it. Otherwise, these uncircumcised will come and abuse me.” But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

Job 5:19He will rescue you out of six troubles; 1 indeed, in seven troubles, no evil will touch you. 1

Psalms 34:19Many are the troubles of the righteous, 1 but Yahweh delivers them out of them all. 1

Psalms 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever; 1 he will take you up and pluck you out of your tent 1 and root you out of the land of the living. Selah 1

Proverbs 13:21Disaster runs after sinners, 1 but righteous people are rewarded with good. 1

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 →

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