Ecclesiastes 24:18

Nova Vulgata

ne forte videat Dominus, et displiceat ei et auferat ab eo iram suam.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
ne forte videat Dominus, et displiceat ei, et auferat ab eo iram suam.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
ne forte videat Dominus, et displiceat ei,
et auferat ab eo iram suam.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

displease him: Heb. be evil in his eyes

and he: Lamentations 4:21, Lamentations 4:22, Zechariah 1:15, Zechariah 1:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:10 - displeased Genesis 48:17 - displeased him Exodus 23:4 - General Numbers 22:34 - if it displease thee Judges 16:25 - sport Job 31:29 - General Psalms 35:15 - in mine Psalms 70:3 - aha Proverbs 17:5 - and Jeremiah 48:27 - was not Ezekiel 25:3 - thou saidst Ezekiel 36:5 - with the Obadiah 1:12 - rejoiced Micah 7:8 - Rejoice Luke 10:34 - went

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lest the Lord see [it], and it displease him,.... Who sees all things, not only external actions, but the heart, and the inward motions of it; and though men may hide the pleasure they feel at the misery of an enemy from others, they cannot hide it from the Lord; nor is this said by way of doubt, but as a certain thing; and which the Lord not barely sees, but takes notice of, and to such a degree as to resent it, and show his displeasure at it by taking the following step;

and he turn away his wrath from him; remove the effects of it, raise him out of his fallen and distressed condition, and restore him to his former prosperous one; and not only so, but turn it upon thee, as Gersom supplies the words, and not amiss; so that there is a strange and sudden change of circumstances; thou that was pleasing thyself with the distress of thine enemy art fallen into the same, and he is delivered out of it; which must be a double affliction to such a man; so that by rejoicing at an enemy, he is doing his enemy good and himself hurt; see Proverbs 17:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the margin. The meaning is “Thy joy will be suicidal, the wrath of the righteous Judge will be turned upon thee, as the greater offender, and thou wilt have to bear a worse evil than that which thou exultest in.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 24:18. And he turn away his wrath from him. — Wrath is here taken for the effect of wrath, punishment; and the meaning must be as paraphrased above-lest he take the punishment from him, and inflict it upon thee. And in this way Coverdale understood it: "Lest the Lorde be angry, and turn his wrath from him unto thee." Or we may understand it thus: Lest the Lord inflict on thee a similar punishment; for if thou get into his spirit, rejoicing in the calamities of another, thou deservest punishment.