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Text -- Proverbs 24:17 (NET)

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24:17 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice,
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Pro 24:17 - -- Into mischief.

Into mischief.

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).

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 - -- 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 יפול yippol , from נפל naphal , to fall, is never applied to sin

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 נפל is never used for falling into sin, but into distress and affliction - as Pro 11:5, Pro 11:14; Pro 13:17; Pro 17:20; Pro 26:27; Pro 28:10, Pro 28:14, Pro 28:18."

TSK: Pro 24:17 - -- Pro 17:5; Jdg 16:25; 2Sa 16:5-14; Job 31:29; Psa 35:15, Psa 35:19, Psa 42:10; Oba 1:12; 1Co 13:6, 1Co 13:7

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

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 - -- 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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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 24:17 The saying (vv. 17, 18) warns against gloating over the misfortune of one’s enemies. The prohibition is formed with two negated jussives “...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

MHCC: Pro 24:17-18 - --The pleasure we are apt to take in the troubles of an enemy is forbidden.

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 - -- 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...

Constable: Pro 22:17--25:1 - --III. WISE SAYINGS 22:17--24:34 A third major section of the Book of Proverbs begins with 22:17. This is clear fr...

Constable: Pro 22:17--24:23 - --A. Thirty Sayings of the Wise 22:17-24:22 Many scholars have called attention to the similarities betwee...

Constable: Pro 23:13--24:23 - --The last 20 sayings 23:13-24:22 23:13-14 The sage again advocated discipline. Beating with a rod is not the only form of discipline advocated in Prove...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 24 (Chapter Introduction) Overview

Poole: Proverbs 24 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 24 Their company or manner of life.

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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