Proverbs 24:15
Do not lie in wait like the wicked person 1 who attacks the house of the righteous person. 1 Do not destroy his home! 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:18Then the king said to Doeg, “Turn and kill the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests; he killed eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod that day.
Psalms 10:8He waits in ambush near the villages; 1 in the secret places he murders the innocent; 1 his eyes look for some helpless victim. 1
Psalms 56:6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, 1 and they mark my steps, 1 just as they have waited for my life. 1
Psalms 140:5The proud have set a trap for me; 1 they have spread a net; 1 they have set a snare for me. Selah 1
Proverbs 22:28Do not remove the ancient boundary stone 1 that your fathers have set. 1
Jeremiah 11:19I was like a gentle lamb being led to a butcher. I did not know that they had formed plans against me, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit! Let us cut him off from the land of the living so his name will be no longer remembered.” 1
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 →