Proverbs 24:17
Do not celebrate when your enemy falls 1 and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, 1
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In The King James Version
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
In Context
18or Yahweh will see and disapprove 1 and turn away his wrath from him. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:5When King David approached Bahurim, there came out from there a man from the clan of Saul, whose name was Shimei son of Gera. He came out cursing as he walked.
Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; 1 they gathered together against me, and I was surprised by them. 1 They tore at me without stopping. 1
Psalms 42:10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries rebuke me, 1 while they always say to me, “Where is your God?” 1
Obadiah 1:12But do not gloat over your brother's day, in the day of his misfortune, and do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction; do not boast in the day of their distress.
1 Corinthians 13:6It does not rejoice in unrighteousness. Instead, it rejoices in 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 →