Proverbs 24:16

Learning From Your Father

¹⁵ Don't lie in wait like an outlaw to attack where the righteous live; ¹⁶ for though a righteous man falls seven times, he will rise again, but the wicked stumble into calamity. ¹⁷ Don't rejoice when your enemy falls; don't let yourself be glad when he stumbles.

Righteous Man

Seven Times

Job 5:19

"He will deliver you through six calamities; and calamity won't touch you throughout the seventh.

Psalm 37:24

Though he stumbles, he will not fall down flat, for the LORD will hold up his hand.

Psalm 34:19

A righteous person will have many troubles, but the LORD will deliver him from them all.

1 Samuel 26:10

As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him down, or his time will come to die, or he will go into battle and perish.

1 Samuel 31:4

Saul told his armor bearer, "Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised people will come and run me through and make sport of me." But his armor bearer did not want to do it because he was very frightened, so Saul took the sword and fell on it.

Esther 7:10

The king said, "Hang him on it." So they hanged Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and then the king's anger subsided.

Psalm 7:16

The trouble he planned will return on his own head, and his violence will descend on his skull.

Psalm 52:5

But God will tear you down forever; he will take you away, even snatching you out of your tent! He will uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude

Proverbs 13:17

An evil messenger stumbles into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.

Proverbs 28:14-18

Blessed is the man who always fears the LORD, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into disaster.

Amos 5:2

Fallen is Israel the virgin never to rise again! She is abandoned on her own land, with no one to raise her up.'

Amos 8:14

Those who have been swearing oaths by the sin of Samaria, or who say, "As your god lives, Dan"' or who say, "As the way of Beer-sheba lives"' will fall, and will never rise again."

Micah 7:8-10

Don't be glad on my account, my enemy. When I fall, I'll get up. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD is a light for me.

Acts 12:23

Immediately the angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

2 Corinthians 1:8-10

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about the suffering we experienced in Asia. We were so crushed beyond our ability to endure that we even despaired of living.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12

In every way we're troubled but not crushed, frustrated but not in despair,

2 Corinthians 11:23-27

Are they the Messiah's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, "There is peace and security," destruction will strike them as suddenly as labor pains come to a pregnant woman, and they will not be able to escape.

Revelation 18:20-21

Be happy about her, heaven, saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has condemned her for you!"