Proverbs 24:15

Do not be like wicked people who hide and wait to break into the houses of righteous/good people and rob/steal things.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

In Context

14Similarly, being wise is good for your soul; if you become wise, you will be happy in the future, and God will certainly do for you what you are confidently expecting him to do [LIT].

16Even if good people fall down seven/many times, they always stand/get up again, but when a disaster happens to wicked people, it ruins/destroys them.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 22:18Then the king said to Doeg, “You kill them!” So Doeg, the man from the Edom people-group, went out and struck them with his sword. On that day he killed eighty-five men who were wearing the sacred vests because they were God’s priests.

Psalms 10:8They hide in villages, ready to ◄ambush/suddenly attack► and kill people who ◄are innocent/have done nothing wrong►. They constantly search for people who will not be able to ◄resist/defend themselves► when they are attacked.

Psalms 56:6In order to cause trouble for me, they hide and watch everything that I do, waiting for an opportunity to kill me [MTY].

Psalms 140:5It is as though proud people have set a trap for me; it is as though they have spread their nets to catch me; it is as though they have put those things along the road to catch/seize me. (Think about that!)

Proverbs 22:28Do not steal some of your neighbors’ land by removing the boundary lines/markers that your ancestors placed/set.

Jeremiah 11:19Before he did that, I was like a lamb that was being led away to be slaughtered; I did not know what they were planning to do. I did not know that they were saying, “Let’s get rid of this tree and its fruit,” so I did not know that they intended to kill me, in order that no one would remember me [MTY].

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 →

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