Proverbs 24:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For seven `times' doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

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  • Ps 37:24 : 24 When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.
  • Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me. 9 The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness. 10 And see doth mine enemy, And cover her doth shame, Who saith unto me, `Where `is' Jehovah thy God?' Mine eyes do look on her, Now she is for a treading-place, As mire of the out-places.
  • Ps 34:19 : 19 Many `are' the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.
  • Job 5:19 : 19 In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.
  • 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested, 11 for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh, 12 so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;
  • Rev 18:20-21 : 20 `Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!' 21 And one strong messenger did take up a stone as a great millstone, and did cast `it' to the sea, saying, `Thus with violence shall Babylon be cast, the great city, and may not be found any more at all;
  • 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life; 9 but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead, 10 who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
  • 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times; 24 from Jews five times forty `stripes' save one I did receive; 25 thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed; 26 journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren; 27 in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.
  • Prov 28:14-18 : 14 O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil. 15 A growling lion, and a ranging bear, `Is' the wicked ruler over a poor people. 16 A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days. 17 A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him. 18 Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.
  • Ps 52:5 : 5 Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.
  • Prov 13:17 : 17 A wicked messenger falleth into evil, And a faithful ambassador is healing.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
  • 1 Sam 26:10 : 10 And David saith, `Jehovah liveth; except Jehovah doth smite him, or his day come that he hath died, or into battle he go down, and hath been consumed --
  • Amos 5:2 : 2 `Fallen, not again to rise, hath the virgin of Israel, Left on her land -- she hath no raiser up.'
  • Amos 8:14 : 14 Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen -- and rise not again!'
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.
  • 1 Sam 31:4 : 4 and Saul saith to the bearer of his weapons, `Draw thy sword, and pierce me with it, lest they come -- these uncircumcised -- and have pierced me, and rolled themselves on me;' and the bearer of his weapons hath not been willing, for he is greatly afraid, and Saul taketh the sword, and falleth upon it.
  • Ps 7:16 : 16 Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

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