Proverbs 24:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Understand, upon thee, which is implied in the Hebrew phrase, such defects being usual in that concise language, Psalms 84:11 Proverbs 19:1, and oft elsewhere. This consideration strikes at the root of that sinful and inhuman disposition, which is an expectation of safety or advantage to himself by his enemy's downfall, which, saith he, by this very mean thou shalt lose, for thine enemy shall be raised, and thy danger greatly increased, by thy provoking both God and him against thee.

Proverbs 24:18

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