Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:
New American Standard Bible
Do not destroy his resting place;
King James Version
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Holman Bible
at the camp of the righteous man;
don’t destroy his dwelling.
International Standard Version
Don't lie in wait like an outlaw to attack where the righteous live;
A Conservative Version
Lay not in wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Do not destroy his resting place.
American Standard Version
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:
Amplified
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous;
Do not destroy his resting place;
Bible in Basic English
Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:
Darby Translation
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not lay wait, O wicked one, against the dwelling of the just one; thou shalt not destroy his resting place:
King James 2000
Lie not in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not lie in wait [like] an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence [to] his dwelling place.
Modern King James verseion
Wicked one, do not lie in ambush at the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Lay no privy wait wickedly upon the house of the righteous, and disquiet not his resting place.
NET Bible
Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.
New Heart English Bible
Do not lie in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Do not destroy his resting place:
The Emphasized Bible
Do not lie in wait, thou lawless man, against the home of the righteous, - neither destroy thou his place of rest;
Webster
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; destroy not his resting-place:
Youngs Literal Translation
Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.
Interlinear
Naveh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 24:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
14 so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off. 15 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place: 16 for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 9:11
As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer here?"
1 Samuel 22:18-19
The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 23:20-23
Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand."
Psalm 10:8-10
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Psalm 37:32
The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
Psalm 56:6
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
Psalm 59:3
For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
Psalm 140:5
The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Proverbs 22:28
Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
Isaiah 32:18
My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
Acts 9:24
but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
Acts 23:16
But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.
Acts 25:3
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.