Proverbs 24:17

15 Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

16 For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.

Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

18 or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.

19 Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
KJV
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
WEB
Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
ASV
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;
DARBY
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth;
BLB
At the falling of your enemy, you should not be glad, and in his stumbling do not let your heart rejoice,
ÅB
Når din fiende faller, må du ikke glede deg, og når han snubler, må ikke ditt hjerte fryde seg,
OTB
Gled deg ikke når din fiende faller, og la ikke ditt hjerte være glad når de snubler,
B1930
Når din fiende faller, må du ikke glede dig, og når han snubler, må ikke ditt hjerte fryde sig,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Obadiah 1:12

    But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

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  • Job 31:29

    If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

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  • 1 Corinthians 13:6–7

    Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

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  • Proverbs 17:5

    He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

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  • 2 Samuel 16:5–14

    As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the family of the house of Saul was just coming out. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and as he approached, he kept yelling out curses.

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  • Psalms 42:10

    Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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  • Psalms 35:19

    Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

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  • Psalms 35:15

    But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

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