Proverbs 24:14-25

¹⁴so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

¹⁵Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

¹⁶for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

¹⁷Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

¹⁸lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

¹⁹Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;

²⁰for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

²¹My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious,

²²for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both?

²³These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

²⁴He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

²⁵but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.