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Proverbs 24:15
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Don't be a cruel person who attacks good people and hurts their families.Bible Study Resources
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Don’t set an ambush, you wicked one,at the camp of the righteous man;don’t destroy his dwelling.
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do no violence to his home;
Do not lie in ambush, you wicked person, against the home of the righteous; Do not destroy his resting place;
Don't be wicked and attack a good family's house; don't rob the place where they live.
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not destroy his resting place;
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:
Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the abode of the righteous;Do not destroy his resting place;
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.
Don't lurk like an outlaw near the home of the righteous, don't raid the place where he lives.
Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place.
Don't be like a criminal who makes plans to rob those who are good or take away their homes.
Do not devise plots of iniquity in the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place;
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Don't be like the wicked who scheme to rob honest people or to take away their homes.Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence to his dwelling place.
Oh wicked one, do not lie in wait against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violate his resting place,
Laye no preuy waite wickedly vpon ye house of ye rightuous, & disquiete not his restinge place.
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:
Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:
Lie not in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous, spoil not his resting-place;
Lay not waite, (O wicked man) against the dwelling of the righteous: spoile not his resting place.
Laye no priuie wayte (O wicked man) against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.
Bring not an ungodly man into the dwelling of the righteous: neither be deceived by the feeding of the belly.
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Aspie thou not, and seke not wickidnesse in the hous of a iust man, nether waste thou his reste.
Don't lay in wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Don't destroy his resting-place:
Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; destroy not his resting-place:
Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not plunder his resting place;
Don't wait in ambush at the home of the godly, and don't raid the house where the godly live.
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.
Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do no violence to the place where the righteous live;
Do not lie in wait, thou lawless man, against the home of the righteous, - neither destroy thou his place of rest;
Lie not in wait, nor seek after wickedness in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.
Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violence to his home;
Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.
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.
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not destroy his resting place;
Contextual Overview
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Don't be a cruel person who attacks good people and hurts their families. 16 Even if good people fall seven times, they will get back up. But when trouble strikes the wicked, that's the end of them.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
Early the next morning Abraham gave Hagar an animal skin full of water and some bread. Then he put the boy on her shoulder and sent them away. They wandered around in the desert near Beersheba,
"I'll be glad to," she answered. Then she quickly took the jar from her shoulder and held it while he drank.
After he had finished, she said, "Now I'll give your camels all the water they want." She quickly poured out water for them, and she kept going back for more, until his camels had drunk all they wanted.
Then he said, "Please tell me who your father is. Does he have room in his house for me and my men to spend the night?"
She answered, "My father is Bethuel, the son of Nahor and Milcah.
Sarah, my master's wife, didn't have any children until she was very old. Then she had a son, and my master has given him everything.
My master answered, "I have always obeyed the Lord , and he will send his angel to help you find my son a wife from among my own relatives.
Even before I had finished praying, Rebekah came by with a water jar on her shoulder. When she had filled the jar, I asked her for a drink.
While Jacob was still talking with the men, his cousin Rachel came up with her father's sheep.
when the seven daughters of Jethro, the priest of Midian, came up to water their father's sheep and goats.
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 ×× ×× "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, âThough the just man fall (not into sin, but into calamities), yet he riseth up.â The point of the teaching is not the liability of good men to err, but Godâs providential care over them (compare the margin reference). âSeven timesâ 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 — צ××ק tsaddik, the man who is walking unblameably in all the testimonies of God; who is rendering to every man his due.
