Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 24:17
Falleth — Into mischief.
Falleth — Into mischief.
Verse Proverbs 24:17. _REJOICE NOT WHEN THINE ENEMY FALLETH_, (into this mischief,) _AND LET NOT THINE HEART BE GLAD WHEN HE STUMBLETH_] When he meets with any thing that injures him; for God will no...
CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk mischief. This theme is repea...
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. thought: the wor...
REJOICE NOT. Illustrations: Tyre (Ezekiel 26:2); Ammon (Ezekiel 25:6); David (2 Samuel 1:11; 2 Samuel 1:12). Compare...
TEXT Proverbs 24:13-22 13. My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste: 14. So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou ha...
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: THINE ENEMY - so the Qeri'; but the Kethibh, 'thine enemies.' LET NOT THINE HEART BE GLAD (NOT ONLY DO NOT...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
SEVEN] an indefinite, but considerable number. The wrath will now fall on you....
When your enemy suffers, perhaps you are glad. But you should not be glad. Instead, you should be cautious. Perhaps your enemy is suffering because God has punished your enemy for his evil actions. Bu...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
בִּ נְפֹ֣ל _אֹֽ֭ויִבְךָ_† אַל ־תִּשְׂמָ֑ח וּ֝ בִ...
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 hi...
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 to...
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. Rejoic...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
REJOICE NOT WHEN THINE ENEMY FALLETH,.... These words are spoken not to the wicked man, Proverbs 24:15; but to the just man, or Solomon's son, or the children of Wisdom; for by the "enemy" is meant su...
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: Ver. 17. _Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth._] If thou dost, it is a sure sign of devilish hatred - επιχαιρ...
_Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth_ Namely, into mischief or trouble, as in the former verse; please not thyself in his destruction. This plainly shows that the love of our enemies is a precept of...
V. 17. REJOICE NOT, in malignant joy, WHEN THINE ENEMY FALLETH, AND LET NOT THINE HEART BE GLAD WHEN HE STUMBLETH, since delight in another's hurt is just as objectionable as outright violence,...
FALLETH, to wit, into mischief, as in the former verse. Please not thyself in his destruction; which plainly shows that the love of our enemies is a precept of the old law as well as of the gospel. Se...
Proverbs 24:17 rejoice H8055 (H8799) enemy H341 (H8802) falls H5307 (H8800) heart H3820 glad H1523 ...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
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 g
_Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth._ REVENGE Johnson makes a distinction between vengeance and revenge. Injuries, he says, are revenged; crimes are avenged. The former is an act of passion, the l...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:17 DO NOT REJOICE reflects the heart of God, who has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (see note on Ezek. 33:11)....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:20. REWARD. The same word used in Proverbs 24:14, and in chap. Proverbs 23:18. Its literal meaning is “a hereafter.” Zöckler translates it end in the first two instances,...
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....
Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in couplets or in phrases. Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studies destruction, and their...
1 Corinthians 13:6; 1 Corinthians 13:7; 2 Samuel 16:5; Job 31:29;...