Proverbs 24:16 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

A righteous person may fall seven times, but he gets up again. However, in a disaster wicked people fall.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

ASV:

For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

BBE:

For an upright man, after falling seven times, will get up again: but trouble is the downfall of the evil.

DBY:

For the righteous falleth seven times, and riseth up again; but the wicked stumble into disaster.

ERV:

For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

JPS:

For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again, but the wicked stumble under adversity.

WBS:

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

WEB:

for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

YLT:

For seven times doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

Proverbs 24:16 Cross References

XREF:

Job 5:19 "From six troubles He will deliver you, Even in seven evil will not touch you.

Psalm 37:24 When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong, Because the LORD is the One who holds his hand.

Proverbs 6:15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing.

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

Proverbs 24:22 For their calamity will rise suddenly, And who knows the ruin that comes from both of them?

Jeremiah 18:17 Like an east wind I will scatter them Before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face In the day of their calamity.'"

Micah 7:8 Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will rise; Though I dwell in darkness, the LORD is a light for me. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

24:16 For a just [man] {e} falleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
(e) He is subject to many perils, but God delivers him.

WES:

24:16 Falleth - Into calamities, of which he evidently speaks both in the foregoing verse , and in the following branch of this verse . Fall - Frequently into irrecoverable destruction.

MHC:

24:1,2 Envy not sinners. And let not a desire ever come into thy mind, Oh that I could shake off restraints! 3-6. Piety and prudence in outward affairs, both go together to complete a wise man. By knowledge the soul is filled with the graces and comforts of the spirit, those precious and pleasant riches. The spirit is strengthened for the spiritual work and the spiritual warfare, by true wisdom. 7-9. A weak man thinks wisdom is too high for him, therefore he will take no pains for it. It is bad to do evil, but worse to devise it. Even the first risings of sin in the heart are sin, and must be repented of. Those that strive to make others hateful, make themselves so. 10. Under troubles we are apt to despair of relief. But be of good courage, and God shall strengthen thy heart. 11,12. If a man know that his neighbour is in danger by any unjust proceeding, he is bound to do all in his power to deliver him. And what is it to suffer immortal souls to perish, when our persuasions and example may be the means of preventing it? 13,14. We are quickened to the study of wisdom by considering both the pleasure and the profit of it. All men relish things that are sweet to the palate; but many have no relish for the things that are sweet to the purified soul, and that make us wise unto salvation. 15,16. The sincere soul falls as a traveller may do, by stumbling at some stone in his path; but gets up, and goes on his way with more care and speed. This is rather to be understood of falls into affliction, than falls into actual sin.

CONC:

Adversity Calamity Disaster Downfall Evil Fall Falleth Falling Falls Mischief Overthrown Righteous Rise Rises Riseth Seven Stumble Trouble Upright Wicked

Adversity Calamity Disaster Downfall Evil Fall Falleth Falling Falls Mischief Overthrown Righteous Rise Rises Riseth Seven Stumble Time Times Trouble Upright Wicked

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