Bible verse

Proverbs 24:17

Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

Proverbs 24:17 · BSB

Proverbs 24:17 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 24.

13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

14 Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.

15 Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

16 For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.

17 Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

18 or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.

19 Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.

20 For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

21 My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not associate with the rebellious.

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Proverbs 24:17 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he is overthrown:

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