Proverbs 24:17 Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,

English Standard Version
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,

New American Standard Bible
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;

King James Bible
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don't gloat when your enemy falls, and don't let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

International Standard Version
Don't rejoice when your enemy falls; don't let yourself be glad when he stumbles.

American Standard Version
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Douay-Rheims Bible
When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart rejoice:

Darby Bible Translation
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth;

Young's Literal Translation
In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:32
And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

Job 31:29
If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

Psalm 35:15
But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yes, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Psalm 35:19
Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 24:18
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Obadiah 1:12
But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

Micah 7:8
Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

24:17,18. The pleasure we are apt to take in the troubles of an enemy is forbidden. 19,20. Envy not the wicked their prosperity; be sure there is no true happiness in it. 21,22. The godly in the land, will be quiet in the land. There may be cause to change for the better, but have nothing to do with them that are given change. 23-26. The wisdom God giveth, renders a man fit for his station. Every one who finds the benefit of the right answer, will be attached to him that gave it. 27. We must prefer necessaries before conveniences, and not go in debt.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17, 18. Yet let none rejoice over the fate of evildoers, lest God punish their wrong spirit by relieving the sufferer (compare Pr 17:5; Job 31:29).