Proverbs 24:17 (BSB)

Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:17

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:17-18: Here, 1. The pleasure we are apt to take in the troubles of an enemy is forbidden us. If any have done us an ill turn, or if we bear them ill-will only because they stand in our light or in our way, when any damage comes to them (suppose they fall), or any danger (suppose they stumble), our corrupt hearts are too apt to...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:17: Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him,.... Who sees all things, not only external actions, but the heart, and the inward motions of it; and though men may hide the pleasure they feel at the misery of an enemy from others, they cannot hide it from the Lord; nor is this said by way of doubt, but as a certain thing; and which...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 24:17: Yet let none rejoice over the fate of evildoers, lest God punish their wrong spirit by relieving the sufferer (compare Pro 17:5; Job 31:29).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 24:17-18: Pro 24:17-18 Warning against a vindictive disposition, and joy over its satisfaction. 17 At the fall of thine enemy rejoice not, And at his overthrow let not thine heart be glad; 18 That Jahve see it not, and it be displeasing to Him, And He turns away His anger from Him. The Chethı̂b, which in itself, as the plur.