Seven times a day?

9. “But are there not assertions in scripture which prove the same thing, if it cannot be inferred from those examples? Does not the scripture say expresly, Even a just man sinneth seven times a day?” I answer, No. The scripture says no such thing. There is no such text in all the bible. That which seems to be intended is the sixteenth verse of the twenty-fourth chapter of the Proverbs: the words of which are these, A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. But this is quite another thing. For, first, the words a day, are not in the text. So that if a just man falls seven times in his life, it is as much as is affirmed here. Secondly, here is no mention of falling into sin at all; what is here mentioned is, falling into temporal affliction. This plainly appears from the verse before, the words of which are these: Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting-place. It follows, For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. As if he had said, “God will deliver him out of his trouble. But when thou fallest, there shall be none to deliver thee.”