Proverbs 24:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises 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 stumble, he shall not fall, For Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
• Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me. 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, Because I have sinned against him, Until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness. 10 Then my enemy will see it, And shame will cover her who said to me, Where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
• Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
• Job 5:19 : 19 He will deliver you in six troubles; Yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
• 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
• Rev 18:20-21 : 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her." 21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
• 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
• 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
• Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, But in death, the righteous has a refuge.
• Prov 28:14-18 : 14 Blessed is the man who always fears; But one who hardens his heart falls into trouble. 15 As a roaring lion or a charging bear, So is a wicked ruler over helpless people. 16 A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days. 17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him. 18 Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; But one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, And root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Prov 13:17 : 17 A wicked messenger falls into trouble, But a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
• 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 David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike 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 has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; There is no one to raise her up."
• Amos 8:14 : 14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, And say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;' And, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' They will fall, and never rise up again."
• Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• 1 Sam 31:4 : 4 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
• Ps 7:16 : 16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.