Proverbs 24:16

American Standard Version (1901)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י שֶׁ֨בַע ׀ יִפּ֣וֹל צַדִּ֣יק וָקָ֑ם וּ֝רְשָׁעִ֗ים יִכָּשְׁל֥וּ בְרָעָֽה׃

Transliteration

For šebaʿ yippôl ṣaddîq wāqām and-rəšāʿîm yikkāšəlû in-rāʿāh

Grammar Details

• *šebaʿ*: masculine singular number - seven
• *yippôl*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - falls
• *ṣaddîq*: masculine singular adjective - righteous
• *wāqām*: Qal perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and rises
• *rəšāʿîm*: masculine plural adjective - wicked
• *yikkāšəlû*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - stumble/are overthrown
• *rāʿāh*: feminine singular noun with preposition - evil/calamity

Word Meanings

• *yippôl*: falls/fails/collapses
• *wāqām*: rises/stands up/recovers
• *yikkāšəlû*: stumble/are overthrown/fall down
• *rāʿāh*: evil/calamity/distress

Referenced Verses

• Ps 37:24 : 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For Jehovah upholdeth him with his hand.
• Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me. 9 I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness. 10 Then mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall see [my desire] upon her; now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
• Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous; But Jehovah delivereth him out of them all.
• Job 5:19 : 19 He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 [ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
• 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
• Rev 18:20-21 : 20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her. 21 And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.
• 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead: 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
• 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
• Prov 28:14-18 : 14 Happy is the man that feareth alway; But he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief. 15 [ As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a wicked ruler over a poor people. 16 The prince that lacketh understanding is also a great oppressor; [But] he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days. 17 A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; Let no man stay him. 18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. {{Selah
• Prov 13:17 : 17 A wicked messenger falleth into evil; But a faithful ambassador is health.
• Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
• 1 Sam 26:10 : 10 And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
• Amos 5:2 : 2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
• Amos 8:14 : 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; they shall fall, and never rise up again.
• Acts 12:23 : 23 And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
• 1 Sam 31:4 : 4 Then said Saul to his armorbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.
• Ps 7:16 : 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.