Proverbs 24:17
Rejoice not when yours enemy falls, and let not yours heart be glad when he stumbles:
Updated King James 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 a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
18Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Cross References
2 Samuel 16:5And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.
Psalms 35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the outcasts gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms 42:10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?
Obadiah 1:12But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
1 Corinthians 13:6Rejoices not in iniquity, but 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 →