Proverbs 24:16
Good News Translation
No matter how often honest people fall, they always get up again; but disaster destroys the wicked.

New Revised Standard Version
for though they fall seven times, they will rise again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Contemporary English Version
Even if good people fall seven times, they will get back up. But when trouble strikes the wicked, that's the end of them.

New American Bible
Though the just fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble from only one mishap.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For a just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For a just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.

a just

Job 5:19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.

Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

Psalm 37:24 When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, for the Lord putteth his hand under him.

Micah 7:8-10 Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:8-12 In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:23-27 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. . . .

but

Proverbs 13:17 The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Proverbs 28:14-18 Blessed is the man that is always fearful: but he that is hardened in mind shall fall into evil. . . .

1 Samuel 26:10 And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

1 Samuel 31:4 Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and slay me, and mock at me. And his armourbearer would not: for he was struck with exceeding great fear. Then Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

Esther 7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

Psalm 7:16 His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.

Psalm 52:5 Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.

Amos 5:2 The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up.

Amos 8:14 In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for thirst.

Acts 12:23 And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

Revelation 18:20,21 Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged your judgment on her. . . .

Context
Do not Envy
15Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest. 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:…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:9
We suffer persecution: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: but we perish not.

Job 5:19
In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.

Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

Psalm 34:21
The death of the wicked is very evil: and they that hate the just shall be guilty.

Psalm 37:24
When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, for the Lord putteth his hand under him.

Psalm 79:12
And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Proverbs 6:15
Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:

Proverbs 14:32
The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Proverbs 24:22
For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?

Jeremiah 8:4
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Shall not he that falleth, rise again? and he that is turned away, shall he not turn again?

Jeremiah 18:17
As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.

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 24:15
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