For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
The teaching of the proverb warns men not to attack or plot against the righteous. They will lose their labor, “Though the just man fall (not into sin, but into calamities), yet he riseth up.” The…
This is spoken, not so much by way of counsel to wicked men (they will not receive instruction, Pro 23:9), but rather in defiance of them, for the encouragement of good people that are threatened by…
Cambridge Bible
falleth not into sin, for the Heb. word is never used of moral lapse, but into trouble or calamity. You will "lay wait against" him and "spoil" him (Pro 24:24) to no purpose. You may cause him many…
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