Proverbs 24:16

A Conservative Version

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Cross References

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but LORD delivers him out of them all.

Psalm 37:24

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for LORD upholds him with his hand.

Job 5:19

He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

Proverbs 14:32

An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful ambassador is health.

Amos 5:2

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.

Psalm 52:5

God will likewise destroy thee forever. He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

1 Samuel 26:10

And David said, As LORD lives, LORD will smite him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.

Psalm 7:16

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own scalp.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

Acts 12:23

And immediately an agent of Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, lives, and, As the way of Beersheba lives, they shall fall, and never rise up again.

1 Samuel 31:4

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his s

Psalm 34:21

Evil shall kill the wicked, and those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Psalm 79:12

and render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached thee, O LORD,

Proverbs 6:15

Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly. Suddenly he shall be broken, and that without remedy.

Proverbs 24:22

For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and the destruction from them both, who knows it?

Jeremiah 8:4

Moreover thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall he turn away, and not return?

Jeremiah 18:17

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Genesis 19:35

And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him. And he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Numbers 32:23

But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.

Proverbs 13:21

Evil pursues sinners, but the righteous shall be recompensed with good.

Ezekiel 7:5

Thus says lord LORD: An evil, an only evil, behold, it comes.