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Proverbs 24:15
15Don’t set an ambush, you wicked one, at the camp of the righteous man; don’t destroy his dwelling.
Proverbs 24:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
- New International Version (NIV)Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous, do not plunder their dwelling place;
- English Standard Version (ESV)Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do no violence to his home;
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not plunder his resting place;
Context of Proverbs 24:15
13Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate; 14realize that wisdom is the same for you. If you find it, you will have a future, and your hope will never fade. Don’t set an ambush, you wicked one, at the camp of the righteous man; don’t destroy his dwelling. 16Though a righteous person falls seven times, he will get up, but the wicked will stumble into ruin. 17Don’t gloat when your enemy falls, and don’t let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
Read all of Proverbs 24Proverbs 24:15 word by word
אַל־תֶּאֱרֹ֣ב רָ֭שָׁע לִנְוֵ֣ה צַדִּ֑יק אַֽל־תְּשַׁדֵּ֥ד רִבְצוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 24:15
- Proverbs 1:11If they say — “Come with us! Let’s set an ambush and kill someone. Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun!
- 1 Samuel 9:11As they were climbing the hill to the city, they found some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here?”
- 1 Samuel 22:18So the king said to Doeg, “Go and execute the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite went and executed the priests himself. On that day, he killed eighty-five men who wore linen ephods.
- 1 Samuel 23:20So now, whenever the king wants to come down, let him come down. As for us, we will be glad to hand him over to the king.”
- Psalms 10:8He waits in ambush near settlements; he kills the innocent in secret places. His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;
- Psalms 37:32The wicked one lies in wait for the righteous and intends to kill him;
- Psalms 56:6They stir up strife, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
- Psalms 59:3Because look, Lord, they set an ambush for me. Powerful men attack me, but not because of any sin or rebellion of mine.
- Psalms 140:5The proud hide a trap with ropes for me; they spread a net along the path and set snares for me.Selah
- Jeremiah 11:19for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me: “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit; let’s cut him off from the land of the living so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
- Matthew 26:4and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill him.
- Acts 9:24but Saul learned of their plot. So they were watching the gates day and night intending to kill him,
- Acts 23:16But the son of Paul’s sister, hearing about their ambush, came and entered the barracks and reported it to Paul.
- Acts 25:3asking for a favor against Paul, that Festus summon him to Jerusalem. They were, in fact, preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.
- Proverbs 22:28Don’t move an ancient boundary marker that your ancestors set up.
- Isaiah 32:18Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure dwellings.
Commentaries on Proverbs 24:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15The dwelling of the righteous - צדיק tsaddik, the man who is walking unblameably in all the testimonies of God; who is rendering to every man his due.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15The teaching of the proverb warns men not to attack or plot against the righteous. They will lose their labor, “Though the just man fall (not into sin, but into calamities), yet he riseth up.” The point of the teaching is not the liability of good men to err, but God‘s providential care over them (compare the margin reference). “Seven times” is a certain for an uncertain number (compare Job 5:19). In contrast with this is the fate of the evildoers, who…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-16Verses 15-16 The sincere soul falls as a traveller may do, by stumbling at some stone in his path; but gets up, and goes on his way with more care and speed. This is rather to be understood of falls into affliction, than falls into actual sin.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-16Saying 27: Godly people do not let setbacks keep them down. • Seven times symbolizes "many times."Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-1615-16. The plots of the wicked against the good, though partially, shall not be fully successful (Psa 37:24); while the wicked, falling under penal evil, find no help.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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