Proverbs 24:17
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.
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at 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 thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
Read in contextJob 31:29
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Read in context1 Corinthians 13:6–7
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Read in contextProverbs 17:5
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Read in context2 Samuel 16:5–14
And 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.
Read in contextPsalms 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Read in contextPsalms 35:19
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
Read in contextPsalms 35:15
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
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