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Proverbs 24:17

World English Bible

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls.
Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

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Proverbs 24:17 in other translations

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Proverbs 24:17 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 24:17 in context

  1. 15Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous.
    Don’t destroy his resting place;
  2. 16for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again;
    but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
  3. 17Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls.
    Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
  4. 18lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him,
    and he turn away his wrath from him.
  5. 19Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers,
    neither be envious of the wicked;