Proverbs 24:18
New International Version
or the LORD will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from them.

New Living Translation
For the LORD will be displeased with you and will turn his anger away from them.

English Standard Version
lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.

Berean Standard Bible
or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.

King James Bible
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

New King James Version
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease Him, And He turn away His wrath from him.

New American Standard Bible
Otherwise, the LORD will see and be displeased, And turn His anger away from him.

NASB 1995
Or the LORD will see it and be displeased, And turn His anger away from him.

NASB 1977
Lest the LORD see it and be displeased, And He turn away His anger from him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Lest Yahweh see it and it be evil in His eyes, And turn His anger away from him.

Amplified Bible
Or the LORD will see your gloating and be displeased, And turn His anger away from your enemy.

Christian Standard Bible
or the LORD will see, be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
or the LORD will see, be displeased, and turn His wrath away from him.

American Standard Version
Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Lest LORD JEHOVAH see, and it is evil in his eyes, and he turn his wrath from him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the Lord will see it, and it will not please him, and he will turn away his wrath from him.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD will find out and be unhappy. Then he will stop being angry with them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest the Lord see, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

English Revised Version
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD will see it, he won't like it, and he will turn his anger away from that person.

Good News Translation
The LORD will know if you are gloating, and he will not like it; and then maybe he won't punish them.

International Standard Version
Otherwise the LORD will observe and disapprove, and he will turn his anger away from him.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease Him, And He turn away His wrath from him.

Literal Standard Version
Lest YHWH see, and [it be] evil in His eyes, | And He has turned His anger from off him.

Majority Standard Bible
or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.

New American Bible
Lest the LORD see it, be displeased with you, and withdraw his wrath from your enemies.

NET Bible
lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

New Revised Standard Version
or else the LORD will see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from them.

New Heart English Bible
lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

World English Bible
lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Young's Literal Translation
Lest Jehovah see, and it be evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

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Context
Do not Envy
17Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles, 18or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him. 19Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.…

Cross References
Proverbs 24:17
Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

Proverbs 24:19
Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.


Treasury of Scripture

Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

displease him or be evil in his eyes

Lamentations 4:21,22
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked…

Zechariah 1:15,16
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction…

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Proverbs 24
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(18) And he turn away his wrath from him.--Upon thee as having sinned more deeply than thine enemy in thus rejoicing at his misfortunes. (Comp. Proverbs 17:5.)

Verse 18. - Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him. This malignant pleasure at others' misfortunes (which Aristotle, 'Eth. Nic.,' 2:7. 15, calls ἐπιχαιρεκακία) is a sin in the eyes of God, and calls for punishment. And he turn away his wrath from him; and, as is implied, direct it upon thee. But it seems a mean motive to adduce, if the maxim is taken baldly to mean, "Do not rejoice at your enemy's calamity, lest God relieve him from the evil:" for true charity would wish for such a result. Bode considers "his wrath" to be the enemy's ill will against thee, which God by his grace changes to love, and thou art thus covered with confusion and shame for thy former vindictiveness. But the point is not so much the removal of God's displeasure from the enemy as the punishment of the malignant man, either mentally or materially. To a malignant mind no severer blow could be given than to see a foe recover God's favor and rise from his fall. The moralist then warns the disciple against giving way to this ἐπιχαιρεκακία lest he prepare for himself bitter mortification by having to witness the restoration of the hated one, or by being himself made to suffer that evil which he had rejoiced to see his neighbour experience (comp. Proverbs 17:5, and note there).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
or
פֶּן־ (pen-)
Conjunction
Strong's 6435: Removal, lest

the LORD
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH

will see
יִרְאֶ֣ה (yir·’eh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

and disapprove,
וְרַ֣ע (wə·ra‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad

and turn His wrath
אַפּֽוֹ׃ (’ap·pōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

away
וְהֵשִׁ֖יב (wə·hê·šîḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

from him.
מֵעָלָ֣יו (mê·‘ā·lāw)
Preposition-m | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against


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