
Text -- Proverbs 24:17 (NET)




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Wesley -> Pro 24:17
Into mischief.
JFB -> Pro 24:17-18
JFB: Pro 24:17-18 - -- Yet let none rejoice over the fate of evildoers, lest God punish their wrong spirit by relieving the sufferer (compare Pro 17:5; Job 31:29).
Clarke -> Pro 24:17
Clarke: Pro 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 in...
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 text, nor in any of the versions
3. The word
4. When set in opposition to the words riseth up, it merely applies to affliction or calamity. See Mic 7:8; Amo 8:4; Jer 25:27; and Psa 34:19, Psa 34:20. "The righteous falls into trouble."See above
Mr. Holden has a very judicious note on this passage: "Injure not a righteous man; for, though he frequently falls into distress, yet, by the superintending care of Providence, ‘ he riseth up again,’ is delivered from his distress, while the wicked are overwhelmed with their misfortunes. That this is the meaning is plain from the preceding and following verses: yet some expound it by the just man often relapsing into sin, and recovering from it; nay, it has even been adduced to prove the doctrine of the final perseverance of the elect. But
TSK -> Pro 24:17

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Poole -> Pro 24:17
Poole: Pro 24:17 - -- Falleth to wit, into mischief, as in the former verse. Please not thyself in his destruction; which plainly shows that the love of our enemies is a p...
Falleth to wit, into mischief, as in the former verse. Please not thyself in his destruction; which plainly shows that the love of our enemies is a precept of the old law as well as of the gospel. See Exo 23:4,5 .
Gill -> Pro 24:17
Gill: Pro 24:17 - -- Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth,.... These words are spoken not to the wicked man, Pro 24:15; but to the just man, or Solomon's son, or the child...
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth,.... These words are spoken not to the wicked man, Pro 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", 1Co 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 Oba 1:12. Joy may be expressed at the fall of the public enemies of God and his people, as was by the Israelites at the destruction of Pharaoh and his host, Exo 15:1; and as will be by the church at the destruction of antichrist, and which they are called upon to do, Rev 18:20; partly on account of their own deliverance and safety, and chiefly because of the glory of God, and of his justice displayed therein; see Psa 58:10; but as private revenge is not to be sought, nor acted, so joy at the calamity and ruin of a private enemy, or a man's own enemy, should not be expressed; but rather he is to be pitied and helped; see Pro 25:21; for to love an enemy, and show regard to him, is the doctrine both of the Old and of the New Testament;
and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth; even secret joy should not be indulged, gladness in the heart, though it does not appear in the countenance, and is not expressed in words; no, not at the least appearance of mischief, when he only stumbles and is ready to fall; and much less should there be exultation and rejoicings made in an open manner at the utter ruin of him.

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MHCC -> Pro 24:17-18
Matthew Henry -> Pro 24:17-18
Matthew Henry: Pro 24:17-18 - -- Here, 1. The pleasure we are apt to take in the troubles of an enemy is forbidden us. If any have done us an ill turn, or if we bear them ill-will o...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 24:17-18
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 24:17-18 - --
Warning against a vindictive disposition, and joy over its satisfaction.
17 At the fall of thine enemy rejoice not,
And at his overthrow let not t...
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