Proverbs 24:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Proverbs 24:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  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.

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 24:7 a. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9 . though...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  just . righteous. the wicked . lawless ones. mischief . calamity. Hebrew. ra'a'. Not the same word as in Proverbs 24:2 and Proverbs 24:8 .

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. For a just man - צדיק tsaddik, the righteous, the same person mentioned above. Falleth seven times...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For a just man falleth seven times— i.e. Into trouble or affliction, not into wilful sin. The Hebrew word נפל napal, rendered falleth, is never applied to sin; but, when set in opposition to...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. For a just man falleth seven (i:e., ever so many, Proverbs 26:25 ) times (into calamities),...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again. — That is, falls into trouble (not sin, as is often supposed). Therefore thy malice will be of no avail, for God’s protection is about him....

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor t...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place: For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Rejoi...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up [again] ,.... This is to be understood of a truly just man; not of one that is only outwardly and seemingly so, or of temporary believers and nomi...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Ver. 16. For a just man falleth seven times, ] i.e., Often. Seven times a day, as the Vulgate...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Lay not wait, &c., against the dwelling of the righteous Against his person, or family, or possessions. Do him no injury, either by subtle and secret devices, or, as it follows, by manifest vio...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:   16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Falleth; either, 1. Into sin. Or, rather, 2. Into calamities, of which he evidently speaks, both in the foregoing verse, and in the opposite and following branch of this verse, and so this word...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 24:16 . The wicked shall fall . Delitzsch reads, “ the wicked are overthrown when calamity falls on them , i.e. , they do not rise again and again as the just man does....

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 24:1 . Be not envious against evil men. Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 73 ; Proverbs 17:1 . Why should we envy the wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; t...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23:17 , where a similar warning is given, and comp...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 16. for a just man falleth seven times, for misfortunes often seem to single him out, he has his full share of them, and riseth up again, endowed with new strength by the Lord; but the wicked...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 26:10 ; 1 Samuel 31:4 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:3 ; 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 ; 2 Corinthians 11:23-27 ; 2 Corinthians 4:8-12 ; Acts 12:23 ; Amos 5:2 ; Amos 8:14 ; Esther 7:10 ; Job 5:19 ;...

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• Proverbs 24:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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.

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