| Proverbs 24:16
| For a just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again: but the wicked shall fall down into evil.
| Fall into smaller sins, (St. Gregory vi. in 2 Reg. xv. etc.) or into disgrace, as yippol (Haydock) rather intimates. (Vatable) (St. Augustine, City of God 11:31.) --- Both significations agree with the context. See Job 5:27., and Matthew 18:21. (Calmet) --- He who is not subject to mortal sin, may still be exposed to many failings, and venial sins, which do not deprive him of the title of just; whereas the wicked consents to mortal sin, from which he riseth not so easily. Hence the wise man admonishes us not to lie in wait, or calumniously seek impiety in the house or soul of the just. (Worthington)
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