Business failure carries financial weight and personal shame at the same time. These verses speak to both.
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“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.”
Proverbs 24:16 (KJV)
“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?”
Isaiah 43:18-19 (KJV)“I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”
Philippians 4:11-12 (KJV)Proverbs 24:16 doesn't say a just person never falls — it says they rise again. Seven times, specifically. Falling isn't the defining characteristic. The direction you face after falling is. Business failure is real and it costs real things — money, confidence, reputation. But it is not the final word on what you are capable of or what God has ahead for you.