Proverbs 24:16
New International Version
for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.

New Living Translation
The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again. But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked.

English Standard Version
for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.

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

King James Bible
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

New King James Version
For a righteous man may fall seven times And rise again, But the wicked shall fall by calamity.

New American Standard Bible
For a righteous person falls seven times and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of disaster.

NASB 1995
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.

NASB 1977
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.

Legacy Standard Bible
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked will stumble in calamity.

Amplified Bible
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of disaster and collapse.

Christian Standard Bible
Though a righteous person falls seven times, he will get up, but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Though a righteous man falls seven times, he will get up, but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

American Standard Version
For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because the righteous falls seven times, and he rises, and the wicked is overthrown by evil.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For a righteous man will fall seven times, and rise again: but the ungodly shall be without strength in troubles.

Contemporary English Version
Even if good people fall seven times, they will get back up. But when trouble strikes the wicked, that's the end of them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For a just man shall fall seven times and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.

English Revised Version
For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A righteous person may fall seven times, but he gets up again. However, in a disaster wicked people fall.

Good News Translation
No matter how often honest people fall, they always get up again; but disaster destroys the wicked.

International Standard Version
for though a righteous man falls seven times, he will rise again, but the wicked stumble into calamity.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again, But the wicked stumble under adversity.

Literal Standard Version
For the righteous fall and rise seven [times], | And the wicked stumble in evil.

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

New American Bible
Though the just fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble from only one mishap.

NET Bible
Although a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets up again, but the wicked will be brought down by calamity.

New Revised Standard Version
for though they fall seven times, they will rise again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

New Heart English Bible
For the righteous may fall seven times, but gets up again, but the wicked will stumble in adversity.

Webster's Bible Translation
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

World English Bible
for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Young's Literal Translation
For seven times doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Do not Envy
15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place. 16For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times. 17Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,…

Cross References
2 Corinthians 4:9
persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

Job 5:19
He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.

Psalm 34:21
Evil will slay the wicked, and the haters of the righteous will be condemned.

Psalm 37:24
Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.

Psalm 79:12
Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

Proverbs 6:15
Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.


Treasury of Scripture

For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

a just

Job 5:19
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Psalm 37:24
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

but

Proverbs 13:17
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Proverbs 28:14-18
Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief…

1 Samuel 26:10
David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

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Proverbs 24
1. Precepts and Warnings














(16) For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.--That is, falls into trouble (not sin, as is often supposed). Therefore thy malice will be of no avail, for God's protection is about him. (Comp. Job 5:19; Psalm 34:19; Psalm 37:24.)

Seven times--i.e., frequently. (Comp. Matthew 18:21.)

Verse 16. - A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. The fall may be taken of sin or of calamity. Preachers, ancient and modern, have made much use of this text in the first sense, expatiating how a good man may fall into venial or more serious sins, but he never loses his love of God, and rises from his fall by repentance on every occasion. We also often find the words in die, "a day," added, which indeed occur in some manuscripts, but are not in the original. But the verb naphal seems not to be used in the sense of "falling" morally; and the meaning here is that the just man frequently falls into trouble, - he is not secure against worldly cares and losses, or the insidious attacks of the man mentioned in Ver. 15; but he never loses his trust in God or offends by fretfulness and impatience, and always God's providence watches over him and delivers him out of all his afflictions. "Seven times" means merely often, that number being used to express plurality or completeness (see on Proverbs 6:31; 26:16; and comp. Genesis 4:24; Job 5:19 (which is like our passage); and Matthew 18:22). The expectation which the sinner conceived when he saw the good man distressed, that he might seize the opportunity and use it to his own benefit, is woefully disappointed. In contrast with the recovery and reestablishment of the righteous, when the wicked suffer calamity there is no recuperation for them. The wicked shall fall into mischief; Revised Version better, are overthrown by calamity (comp. Proverbs 14:32, and note there). Septuagint," But the ungodly shall be weak in evils."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For though
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

a righteous
צַדִּ֣יק (ṣad·dîq)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6662: Just, righteous

man falls
יִפּ֣וֹל (yip·pō·wl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

seven times,
שֶׁ֨בַע ׀ (še·ḇa‘)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

he will get up,
וָקָ֑ם (wā·qām)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

but the wicked
וּ֝רְשָׁעִ֗ים (ū·rə·šā·‘îm)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

will stumble
יִכָּשְׁל֥וּ (yik·kā·šə·lū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall

into ruin.
בְרָעָֽה׃ (ḇə·rā·‘āh)
Preposition-b | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil


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