Proverbs 24:15
Do not lay wait, O wicked one, || At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting place.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
In Context
16For the righteous fall and rise seven [times], || And the wicked stumble in evil.
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:18And the king says to Doeg, “Turn around, and come against the priests”; and Doeg the Edomite turns around, and comes against the priests himself, and in that day puts to death eighty-five men bearing a linen ephod,
Psalms 10:8He sits in an ambush of the villages, || He slays the innocent in secret places. His eyes secretly watch for the afflicted,
Psalms 56:6They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, || When they have expected my soul.
Psalms 140:5The proud hid a snare for me—and cords, || They spread a net by the side of the path, || They have set snares for me. Selah.
Proverbs 22:28Do not remove a border of ancient times, || That your fathers have made.
Jeremiah 11:19And I [am] as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, || And I have not known || That they have devised schemes against me: “We destroy the tree with its food, || And cut him off from the land of the living, || And his name is not remembered again.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:14-15
13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off. We are here quickened to the study of wisdom by the consideration both of the pleasure and the profit of it. 1. It will be very pleasant. We eat honey because it is sweet to the taste, and upon that account we call it good, especially that which runs first from the… Read the whole commentary →