THEOSISProverbs 24:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For a just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.
כִּ֤י שֶׁ֨בַע ׀ יִפּ֣וֹל צַדִּ֣יק וָקָ֑ם וּ֝רְשָׁעִ֗ים יִכָּשְׁל֥וּ בְרָעָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 34 (33):19
- Mic 7:8Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.
- Mic 7:10And my enemy shall behold, and she shall be covered with shame, who saith to me: Where is the Lord thy God? my eyes shall look down upon her: now shall she be trodden under foot as the mire of the streets.
- Ps 37 (36):24
- Job 5:19In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
- 2 Cor 4:8In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute.
- 2 Cor 4:12So then death worketh in us: but life in you.
- 2 Cor 11:23They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.