💡WEB · Proverbs 24:17
What does Proverbs 24:17 mean?
"Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;"
— Proverbs 24:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.
Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place:
for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;
lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:
for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
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