For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times. Cross References 2 Corinthians 4:9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. Job 5:19 He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven. Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all. Psalm 34:21 Evil will slay the wicked, and the haters of the righteous will be condemned. Psalm 37:24 Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand. Psalm 79:12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord. Proverbs 6:15 Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery. Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death. Proverbs 24:22 For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring? Jeremiah 8:4 So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: "Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return? Jeremiah 18:17 I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity." Micah 7:8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. Treasury of Scripture For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. a just Job 5:19 Psalm 34:19 Psalm 37:24 but Proverbs 13:17 Proverbs 28:14-18 1 Samuel 26:10 |