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Proverbs 24:17

โ€œDon't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;โ€

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15

Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

16

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

17

Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

18

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

19

Don't fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:

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