Proverbs Chapter 24 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 24:18

Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
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BBE Proverbs 24:18

For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.
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DARBY Proverbs 24:18

lest Jehovah see it, and it be evil in his sight, and he turn away his anger from him.
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KJV Proverbs 24:18

Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
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WBT Proverbs 24:18


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WEB Proverbs 24:18

Lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
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YLT Proverbs 24:18

Lest Jehovah see, and `it be' evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him. This malignant pleasure at others' misfortunes (which Aristotle, 'Eth. Nic.,' 2:7. 15, calls ἐπιχαιρεκακία) is a sin in the eyes of God, and calls for punishment. And he turn away his wrath from him; and, as is implied, direct it upon thee. But it seems a mean motive to adduce, if the maxim is taken baldly to mean, "Do not rejoice at your enemy's calamity, lest God relieve him from the evil:" for true charity would wish for such a result. Bode considers "his wrath" to be the enemy's ill will against thee, which God by his grace changes to love, and thou art thus covered with confusion and shame for thy former vindictiveness. But the point is not so much the removal of God's displeasure from the enemy as the punishment of the malignant man, either mentally or materially. To a malignant mind no severer blow could be given than to see a foe recover God's favor and rise from his fall. The moralist then warns the disciple against giving way to this ἐπιχαιρεκακία lest he prepare for himself bitter mortification by having to witness the restoration of the hated one, or by being himself made to suffer that evil which he had rejoiced to see his neighbour experience (comp. Proverbs 17:5, and note there).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) And he turn away his wrath from him.--Upon thee as having sinned more deeply than thine enemy in thus rejoicing at his misfortunes. (Comp. Proverbs 17:5.)