The teaching of the proverb warns people not to attack or plot against the righteous. They will lose their labor: Though the just man falls (no…

For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again. —That is, falls into trouble (not sin, as is often suppo…

For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up [again] ,
&c.] This is to be understood of a truly just man; not of one th…

The sincere soul falls as a traveler may, by stumbling over some stone in his path, but gets up and goes on his way with more care and speed. This …