Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 24:16

16 For a just man falleth seven times , and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief .

Either 1. into sin. Or rather 2. into calamities, of which he evidently speaks both in the foregoing Verse, and in the opposite and following branch of this Verse, and so this word is used in the next Verse, and Psal. 37. 24. Isa. 24. [illegible: 1+ letters]0. Ier. 25. 27. Amos 8. 14. Mic. 7. 8, &c. And so this is fitly alledged as a just reason to distuade wicked Men from their unjust attempts against righteous men, because they should not succeed in them, and although they might, by God's permission, bring them into some distress for a time, yet God would deliver them out of their hands, and they should be disappointed of their hopes.

i. e. Frequently.

Into unavoidable and irrecoverable destruction, oft-times in this life, and infallibly in the next.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] ▪ 19▪ [illegible: 1 word] 19.; [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] 5. 2.