Proverbs 24:17 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 24:17

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, (into this mischief), and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth - When he meets with any thing that injures him; for God will not have thee to avenge thyself, or feel any disposition contrary to love; for if thou do, the Lord will be angry, and may turn away his wrath from him, and pour it out on thee. This I believe to be the true sense of these verses: but we must return to the sixteenth, as that has been most sinfully misrepresented.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בִּנְפֹ֣ל	bin.Fol	when falls	H5307 →
אֽ֭וֹיִבְךָ	'oy.vei.kha	enemy your	H341 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תִּשְׂמָ֑ח	tis.Mach	you rejoice	H8055 →
וּ֝בִכָּשְׁל֗וֹ	u.vi.ka.she.Lo	and when stumbles he	H3782 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
יָגֵ֥ל	ya.Gel	it rejoice	H1523 →
לִבֶּֽךָ׃	li.Be.kha	heart your	H3820 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 31:29
If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
leads to
- Proverbs 24:17–18
  Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 17:5
  He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Proverbs 17:5
He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
leads to
- Proverbs 14:31
  Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
- Job 31:29
  If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
- 1 John 3:17
  If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
- Obadiah 1:11–13
  On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
Through
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…
leads to
- Ezekiel 35:15
  As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then…
- Micah 4:11
  But now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”

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