Proverbs 24:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Proverbs 24:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zechariah 1:15-16
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. …
Lamentations 4:21-22
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 conceive a secret delight and satisfaction in it— Aha! so would we have it; th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

17-18. Yet let none rejoice over the fate of evildoers, lest God punish their wrong spirit by relieving the sufferer (compare Pr 17:5; Job 31:29).