Proverbs 24:17

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: THINE ENEMY - so the Qeri'; but the Kethibh, 'thine enemies.' LET NOT THINE HEART BE GLAD (NOT ONLY DO NOT OPENLY REJOICE, BUT DO NOT EVEN SECRETLY IN THY HEART BE GLAD) WHEN HE STUMBLETH. Not only are we not to exult in a more severe calamity, but not even in a lighter one of an enemy. The notion is false that the Old Testament does not prescribe love of enemies. This is not inconsistent with exulting over the overthrow of the public enemies of God and the Church: as over Pharaoh (Exodus 15:1), and hereafter over mystic Babylon (; ). David did not exult at the death of his personal e...

Verse Proverbs 24:17. _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. _For a just_ man _falleth seven times_. - That is, say many, "the most righteous man in the world sins seven times a day on an average." Solomon does not say so: - 1. There is not a word about _sin_ in the text. 2. The word _day_ is not in the Hebrew

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 23:19 below). "Men of wickedness," wholly given over to evil. NEITHER DESIRE TO BE WITH THEM. Their company is pollution, and association with them makes you a partner in their sinful doings. The Septuagint prefaces the paragraph with the personal address, υἱέ_ _"son." PROVERBS 24:2 For their heart studie

REJOICE NOT WHEN THINE ENEMY FALLETH,.... These words are spoken not to the wicked man, Proverbs 24:15; but to the just man, or Solomon's son, or the children of Wisdom; for by the "enemy" is meant such who are at enmity with the people of God, as the seed of the serpent, and those after the flesh, are: and when these "fall", saints should not "rejoice"; as when they fall into sin; for so to do would be to act as wicked "charity [which] rejoiceth not in iniquity", 1 Corinthians 13:6: or rather when they fill into calamity and distress; for this is also the part which wicked men act towards the people of God, and should not be imitated in; see Obadiah 1:12. Joy may be expressed at the fall of the

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 repeatedly referred to in this chapter. In Proverbs 24:15 the evil man is addressed not to lay wait for the righteous and not to spoil his resting place. The Lord takes care of the righteous; he may be overcome by misfortunes seven times, yet will he rise again. Different it is with the wicked when he falls into mischief. Yet there must be no rejoicing over the fall of the enemy, nor gladness when he stumbled. This displeaseth the Lord. Still higher is the command of the New Testament, “Love your enemies; ... recompense no man evil for evil; ... overcome evil with good.” There is to be no fretting because of evil men nor envy ...

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 word means plan or device, and is used in both a good and a bad sense in Pr. Here the meaning is that sin is the kind of plan which folly engages in, sin is folly's plan. Proverbs 24:10. An incomplete aphorism. As it stands its probable meaning is, If thou art slack, thy strength will be narrow (_i.e._ restricted) in the day of trouble. Proverbs 24:11 f. The Heb. is not unambiguous and shows

REJOICE NOT. Illustrations: Tyre (Ezekiel 26:2); Ammon (Ezekiel 25:6); David (2 Samuel 1:11; 2 Samuel 1:12). Compare Psalms 35:13; Psalms 35:14); Jeremiah (Jeremiah 9:1); Edom (Obadiah 1:11)....

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 hast found it, then shall there be a reward, And thy hope shall not be cut off. 15. Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place. 16. For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity. 17. Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown; 18. Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him. 19. Fret not thyself because of evildoers; Neither be thou envious at the wicked: 20....

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....