Proverbs 24:18
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.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

displease him or be evil in his eyes

Lamentations 4:21,22 Sin. Rejoice, and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Hus: to thee also shall the cup come, thou shalt be made drunk, and naked. . . .

Zechariah 1:15,16 And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil. . . .

Context
Do not Envy
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.19Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly.…
Cross References
Proverbs 24:17
When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:

Proverbs 24:19
Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly.

Proverbs 24:17
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