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Proverbs 24:15

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Young Men;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t set an ambush, you wicked one,at the camp of the righteous man;don’t destroy his dwelling.
Hebrew Names Version
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:
King James Version
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
English Standard Version
Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do no violence to his home;
New American Standard Bible
Do not lie in ambush, you wicked person, against the home of the righteous; Do not destroy his resting place;
New Century Version
Don't be wicked and attack a good family's house; don't rob the place where they live.
Amplified Bible
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not destroy his resting place;
World English Bible
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.
Legacy Standard Bible
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the abode of the righteous;Do not destroy his resting place;
Contemporary English Version

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Don't be a cruel person who attacks good people and hurts their families.
Complete Jewish Bible
Don't lurk like an outlaw near the home of the righteous, don't raid the place where he lives.
Darby Translation
Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place.
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't be like a criminal who makes plans to rob those who are good or take away their homes.
George Lamsa Translation
Do not devise plots of iniquity in the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place;
Good News Translation

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Don't be like the wicked who scheme to rob honest people or to take away their homes.
Lexham English Bible
Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence to his dwelling place.
Literal Translation
Oh wicked one, do not lie in wait against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violate his resting place,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Laye no preuy waite wickedly vpon ye house of ye rightuous, & disquiete not his restinge place.
American Standard Version
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:
Bible in Basic English
Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Lie not in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous, spoil not his resting-place;
King James Version (1611)
Lay not waite, (O wicked man) against the dwelling of the righteous: spoile not his resting place.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Laye no priuie wayte (O wicked man) against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Bring not an ungodly man into the dwelling of the righteous: neither be deceived by the feeding of the belly.
English Revised Version
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aspie thou not, and seke not wickidnesse in the hous of a iust man, nether waste thou his reste.
Update Bible Version
Don't lay in wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Don't destroy his resting-place:
Webster's Bible Translation
Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; destroy not his resting-place:
New English Translation
Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.
New King James Version
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not plunder his resting place;
New Living Translation
Don't wait in ambush at the home of the godly, and don't raid the house where the godly live.
New Life Bible
O sinful man, do not lie in wait against the house of the man who is right with God. Do not destroy his resting place.
New Revised Standard
Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do no violence to the place where the righteous live;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not lie in wait, thou lawless man, against the home of the righteous, - neither destroy thou his place of rest;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.
Revised Standard Version
Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violence to his home;
Young's Literal Translation
Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.
THE MESSAGE
27 Don't interfere with good people's lives; don't try to get the best of them. No matter how many times you trip them up, God-loyal people don't stay down long; Soon they're up on their feet, while the wicked end up flat on their faces.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not destroy his resting place;

Contextual Overview

15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.16For though a righteous man falls seven times, he will get up, but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lay: Proverbs 1:11, 1 Samuel 9:11, 1 Samuel 22:18, 1 Samuel 22:19, 1 Samuel 23:20-23, Psalms 10:8-10, Psalms 37:32, Psalms 56:6, Psalms 59:3, Psalms 140:5, Jeremiah 11:19, Matthew 26:4, Acts 9:24, Acts 23:16, Acts 25:3

spoil: Proverbs 22:28, Isaiah 32:18

Cross-References

Genesis 11:27
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
Genesis 21:14
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar's shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 24:18
"Drink, my lord," she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
Genesis 24:19
After she had given him a drink, she said, "I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink."
Genesis 24:20
And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.
Genesis 24:23
"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"
Genesis 24:24
She replied, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor."
Genesis 24:36
My master's wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.
Genesis 24:40
And he told me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father's house.
Genesis 24:45
And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous,.... The church of God, which is the righteous man's dwelling place, and where he desires and delights to dwell; or his own dwelling house; it may be rendered, "at the dwelling of the righteous" p; lay not wait at his door to observe who goes in and out, and what is done there; and to watch for his halting, and take notice of his infirmities, slips, and falls, and improve them to his disadvantage; and so the Vulgate Latin version, "and lay not wait and seek ungodliness in the house of the righteous"; or lay not wait there for him, as Saul set men to watch the house of David to kill him,

1 Samuel 19:11; or to take an opportunity and get into it and plunder it, as follows;

spoil not his resting place: by pulling it down, or stripping it of its furniture; by robbing him of the substance in it, and thus disturbing his rest, and destroying the place of it; or the place where he lies down as a sheep in its fold, or as the shepherd in his cottage, of which the words in the text are used; and so denote that as the righteous man is like a sheep, harmless and innocent, those that lay in wait for him and spoil him are no other than wolves.

p לנוה "habitaculo", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus; "habitationi", Michaelis; "mansioni", Cocceius, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The 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 fall utterly even in a single distress.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 24:15. The 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.


 
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