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Proverbs 24:15

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24:15Do not lie in wait like the wicked26 against the place where the righteous live;

do not assault27 his home.

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Footnotes

  1. 26 The word “wicked” could be taken as a vocative (cf. , , , “O wicked man”); but since the next line refers to the wicked this is unlikely. It serves better as an adverbial accusative (“like the wicked”).
  2. 27 The saying warns that it is futile and self-defeating to mistreat God’s people, for they survive—the wicked do not. The warning is against a deliberate, planned assault on their places of dwelling.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous;

do no violence to his home;

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous,

do not plunder their dwelling place;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Don’t set an ambush, you wicked one,

at the camp of the righteous man;

don’t destroy his dwelling.

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t wait in ambush at the home of the godly,

and don’t raid the house where the godly live.

LEBThe 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.

KJV 1900King James Version

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous;

Spoil not his resting place: