Proverbs 24:16

For a just man shall fall seven times in the day, and shall rise again; but wicked men shall fall into evil. (For a righteous person shall fall seven times in a day, and shall rise up again each time; but the wicked shall fall into evil, and shall never get out of it.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

15Ambush thou not, and seek not (to bring) wickedness in the house of a just man, neither waste thou, his rest (ing) (place). (Do not thou ambush, and do not seek to bring wickedness into the house of a righteous person, nor destroy thou his resting place.)

17When thine enemy falleth, have thou not joy; and thine heart have not full out joying in his falling;

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Cross References

Numbers 32:23But if ye do not that, that ye say, it is no doubt to any man, that not ye sin against God; and know ye, that your sin shall take (hold of) you. (But if ye do not do what ye say ye will, no one shall have any doubt, but that ye have sinned against God; and know ye, that your sin shall catch up with you.)

1 Samuel 31:4And Saul said to his squire, Draw out thy sword, and slay me, lest peradventure these uncircumcised men come, and slay me, and scorn me. And his squire would not, for he was afeared by full great dread; therefore Saul took his sword, and felled thereon, (or But his squire would not do it, for he was afraid with a very great fear; and so Saul took his own sword, and fell on it).

Job 5:19In six tribulations he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh tribulation evil shall not touch thee.

Psalms 34:19Many tribulations be of just men; and the Lord shall deliver them from all these. (Many troubles be to the righteous; but the Lord shall rescue, or save, them out of all of them.)

Psalms 52:5Therefore God shall destroy thee into the end, he shall draw thee out by the root, and he shall make thee to pass away from thy tabernacle; and thy root from the land of living men. (And so God shall destroy thee, or ruin thee, forever, yea, he shall draw thee out, and he shall make thee go far away from thy home; he shall root thee out from the land of the living.)

Proverbs 13:21Evil pursueth sinners; and goods shall be given to just men (or but good things shall be given to 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 →

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