Parallel Verses
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:
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.
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:
World English Bible
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy 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 the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul if thou shalt find: and there is a latter state and thine expectation shall not be cut off. 15 Thou shalt not lay wait, O wicked one, against the dwelling of the just one; thou shalt not destroy his resting place: 16 For the just one shall fall seven times, and rise: and the unjust shall be weak in evil
Names
Cross References
1 Samuel 9:11
They going up in the ascent of the city and they found girls going forth to draw water, and they will say to them, Is he seeing, here?
1 Samuel 22:18-19
And the king will say to Doeg, Turn thou about, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite will turn about, and he will fall upon the priests and kill in that day eighty and five men lifting up a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 23:20-23
And now, according to all the desire of thy soul, O king, to come down, come down; and for us to shut him up into the hand of the king.
Psalm 10:8-10
Sitting in ambush of the enclosures: in hiding-places he will slay the innocent: his eyes will be hid to the afflicted.
Psalm 37:32
The unjust watches for the just, and seeks to kill him,
Psalm 56:6
They will sojourn, they will hide, they will watch my heels as they waited for my soul
Psalm 59:3
For behold, they lay in wait for my soul: the strong will gather against me; not my transgression and not my sin, O Jehovah.
Psalm 140:5
The proud hid a snare for me, and cords; they spread a net at the hand of the way; they set snares for me. Silence.
Proverbs 1:11
If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;
Proverbs 22:28
Thou shalt not remove the old bound which thy fathers made.
Isaiah 32:18
And my people shall sit in a dwelling of peace, and in habitations of trust and in quiet resting places.
Jeremiah 11:19
And I as a gentle lamb being brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that against me they purposed purposes: We will destroy the tree with its food, and we will cut him off from the land of the living, and his name shall no more be remembered.
Matthew 26:4
And they counselled together, that they might obtain Jesus by stratagem, and might kill.
Acts 9:24
But this project was known to Saul. And they observed narrowly the gates day, and also night, that they might kill him.
Acts 23:16
And Paul's sister's son having heard of the ambuscade, having approached, and come into the camp, announced to Paul.
Acts 25:3
Asking favor against him, that he might send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambuscade to kill him in the way.