Proverbs 24:17
Good News Translation
Don't be glad when your enemies meet disaster, and don't rejoice when they stumble.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not rejoice when your enemies fall, and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble,

Contemporary English Version
Don't be happy to see your enemies trip and fall down.

New American Bible
Do not rejoice when your enemies fall, and when they stumble, do not let your heart exult,

Douay-Rheims Bible
When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:

Proverbs 17:5 He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his maker: and he that rejoiceth at another man's ruin, shall not be unpunished.

Judges 16:25 And rejoicing in their feasts, when they had now taken their good cheer, they commanded that Samson should be called, and should play before them. And being brought out of prison, he played before them; and they made him stand between two pillars.

2 Samuel 16:5 And king David came as far as Bahurim: and behold there came out from thence a man of the kindred of the house of Saul named Semei, the son of Gera, and coming out he cursed as he went on,

Job 31:29 If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.

Psalm 35:15,19 But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not. . . .

Psalm 42:10 Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who trouble me have reproached me; Whilst they say to me day by day: Where is thy God?

Obadiah 1:12 In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.

1 Corinthians 13:6,7 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth: . . .

Context
Do not Envy
16For a just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil. 17When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:18Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:32
And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept.

Job 31:29
If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.

Psalm 35:15
But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

Psalm 35:19
Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: who have hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes.

Proverbs 17:5
He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his maker: and he that rejoiceth at another man's ruin, shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 24:18
Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Obadiah 1:12
In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.

Micah 7:8
Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.

Proverbs 24:16
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