Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 24:15
15Do not lurk like the wicked near the dwelling of the righteous. Do not assault his home.
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 honeycomb is sweet to your taste. 14Likewise know that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off. Do not lurk like the wicked near the dwelling of the righteous. Do not assault his home. 16For though the righteous one may fall seven times, he gets up again, but the wicked stumble in adversity. 17Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, or let your heart be glad 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 1:11Suppose they say: “Come with us! Let’s lie in wait for blood! Let’s ambush the innocent— for no reason!
- 1 Samuel 9:11As they went up the hill to the town, they found some girls going out to draw water, and they asked them, “Is the seer here?”
- 1 Samuel 22:18So the king said to Doeg, “You, turn around and kill the kohanim!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and fell upon the kohanim and on that day killed 85 men who wore the linen ephod.
- 1 Samuel 23:20Now therefore, O king, come down whenever it is a desire of your soul to come down—our part will be to deliver him into the king’s hand.”
- Psalms 10:8He lies in ambush near villages. In hidden places he slays the innocent. His eyes watch in secret for the helpless.
- Psalms 37:32The wicked lies in wait for the righteous, seeking to slay him.
- Psalms 56:6All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- Psalms 59:3Deliver me from workers of iniquity. Rescue me from bloodthirsty men.
- Psalms 140:5Keep me safe, Adonai, from the clutches of the wicked. Protect me from the man of violence who planned to push me off my feet.
- Jeremiah 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter. I did not know they had devised plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be no more remembered.”
- Matthew 26:4They plotted together in order that they might seize Yeshua by stealth and kill Him.
- Acts 9:24but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him.
- Acts 23:16But the son of Paul’s sister heard of their ambush. He went into the headquarters and told Paul.
- Acts 25:3asking a favor—to have Paul sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the road.
- Proverbs 22:28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers set up.
- Isaiah 32:18My people will live in a peaceful place, in secure dwellings, quiet resting places.
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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