Proverbs [Sayings] 24:13-19

¹³My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

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 upright. Don’t destroy his resting place:

¹⁶for a upright 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 Adonai 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: