Proverbs 24:14-22

¹⁴So is the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off.

¹⁵Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

¹⁶For seven times doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

¹⁷In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,

¹⁸Lest Jehovah see, and it be evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

¹⁹Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not envious at the wicked,

²⁰For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

²¹Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,

²²For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both — who knoweth!