Proverbs 24:16

The righteous rise again after falling, but the wicked are brought down by calamity.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
• Ps 37:24Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
• Mic 7:8–10Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
• Job 5:19He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
• 2 Cor 4:8–12We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
• Prov 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
• 1 Th 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
• Rev 18:20–21Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.
• Prov 13:17A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
• 2 Cor 1:8–10We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
• Prov 28:14–18Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
• Amos 5:2“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
• Ps 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
• 1 Sam 26:10David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
• Ps 7:16His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
• Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
• Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• 1 Sam 31:4Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
• Amos 8:14Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”

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