Proverbs 24:17

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

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Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

BSB

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

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;

BBE

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

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Matthew Henry · Verses 17–18

The pleasure we are apt to take in the troubles of an enemy is forbidden.

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