Proverbs 24:16
What meaning of the proverbs 24:16 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 24:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief."
What does Proverbs 24:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief."
Verse Proverbs 24:16. _FOR A JUST_ MAN] צדיק _tsaddik_, the _righteous_, the same person mentioned above. _FALLETH SEVEN TIMES_] Gets _very often_ into distresses through his _resting place_ being _s...
The teaching of the proverb warns men not to attack or plot against the righteous. They will lose their labor, “Though the just man fall (not into sin, but into calamities), yet he riseth up.” The poi...
CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk mischief. This theme is repea...
PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wo...
JUST. righteous. THE WICKED. lawless ones. MISCHIEF. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ Not the same word as in Proverbs 24:2 and Proverbs 24:8....
_falleth_ not into _sin_, for the Heb. word is never used of moral lapse, but into trouble or calamity. You will "lay wait against" him and "spoil" him (Proverbs 24:15) to no purpose. You may cause hi...
FOR A JUST MAN FALLETH SEVEN TIMES— i.e. Into trouble or affliction, not into wilful sin. The Hebrew word נפל _napal,_ rendered _falleth,_ is never applied to _sin;_ but, when set in opposition to the...
TEXT Proverbs 24:13-22 13. My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste: 14. So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou ha...
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. FOR A JUST MAN FALLETH SEVEN (I:E., EVER SO MANY, PROVERBS 26:25 ) TIMES (INTO CALAMITIES), AND RI...
24:16 disaster. (h-16) Lit. 'evil,' as chs. 17.20; 28.14....
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2 They make cruel plans in their minds. And they discuss how to cause trouble...
FOR A JUST MAN FALLETH SEVEN TIMES AND RISETH UP AGAIN. — That is, falls into trouble (not _sin,_ as is often supposed). Therefore thy malice will be of no avail, for God’s protection is about him. (C...
כִּ֤י שֶׁ֨בַע ׀ יִפֹּ֣ול צַדִּ֣יק וָ קָ֑ם וּ֝ רְשָׁעִ֗ים יִכָּשְׁל֥וּ בְ רָעָֽה׃...
CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to hi...
Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor to...
For a just [man] (e) falleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. (e) He is subject to many perils, but God delivers him....
_Fall into smaller sins, (St. Gregory vi. in 2 Reg. xv. &c.) or into disgrace, as yippol (Haydock) rather intimates. (Vatable) (St. Augustine, City of God xi. 31.) --- Both significations agree with t...
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place: For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Rejoic...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be follow...
FOR A JUST [MAN] FALLETH SEVEN TIMES, AND RISETH UP [AGAIN],.... This is to be understood of a truly just man; not of one that is only outwardly and seemingly so, or of temporary believers and nominal...
For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Ver. 16. _For a just man falleth seven times,_] _i.e., _ Often. Seven times a day, as the Vulgate a...
_Lay not wait, &c., against the dwelling of the righteous_ Against his person, or family, or possessions. Do him no injury, either by subtle and secret devices, or, as it follows, by manifest violence...
V. 16. FOR A JUST MAN FALLETH SEVEN TIMES, for misfortunes often seem to single him out, he has his full share of them, AND RISETH UP AGAIN, endowed with new strength by the Lord; BUT THE WICKED SHALL...
FALLETH; either, 1. Into sin. Or, rather, 2. Into calamities, of which he evidently speaks, both in the foregoing verse, and in the opposite and following branch of this verse, and so this word is us...
Proverbs 24:16 righteous H6662 fall H5307 (H8799) times H7651 again H6965 (H8804) wicked H7563 fall H3782 (H8735) calamity H7451 a just - Job 5:19; Psalms 34:19, Psalms 37:24;...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; their pros...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:15 This warns against joining the WICKED in injustice. Acting this way forms a person’s character in a way that will be unhelpful in CALAMITY. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:16. THE WICKED SHALL FALL. Delitzsch reads, “_the wicked are overthrown when calamity falls on them_, _i.e._, they do not rise again and again as the just man does. _MAI...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar warning is given, and comp. Proverbs 23:1...
Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in couplets or in phrases. Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studies destruction, and their...
1 Samuel 26:10; 1 Samuel 31:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 2 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 11:23; 2 Corinthians 4:8; Acts 12:23; Amos 5:2; Amos 8:14;...
Falleth — Into calamities, of which he evidently speaks both in the foregoing verse, and in the following branch of this verse. Fall — Frequently into irrecoverable destruction....