Proverbs 24:15

World English Bible (2000)

Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 9:11 : 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 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 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. 19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
  • 1 Sam 23:20-23 : 20 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." 21 Saul said, "You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me. 22 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net. 10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
  • Ps 37:32 : 32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
  • Ps 56:6 : 6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
  • Ps 59:3 : 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.
  • Ps 140:5 : 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.
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
  • Prov 22:28 : 28 Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
  • Isa 32:18 : 18 My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
  • Jer 11:19 : 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.
  • Matt 26:4 : 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
  • Acts 9:24 : 24 but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
  • Acts 23:16 : 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 : 3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 37:32
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    32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Prov 21:12
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    12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

  • Prov 24:16-20
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    79%

    16 for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

    17 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

    18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

    19 Don't fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:

    20 for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

  • Prov 12:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

    7 The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

  • Ps 125:3
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    3 For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.

  • Prov 10:29-30
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    76%

    29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

    30 The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

  • Prov 3:29
    76%

    29 Don't devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

  • Prov 12:21
    76%

    21 No mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.

  • Ps 140:11
    75%

    11 An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

  • Ps 37:10
    75%

    10 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

  • Prov 21:7
    75%

    7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Prov 14:11
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    11 The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

  • Prov 4:16
    75%

    16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Prov 11:23
    75%

    23 The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

  • Prov 3:25
    75%

    25 Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:

  • Prov 24:1
    75%

    1 Don't be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:

  • Hab 2:9
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    9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

  • Prov 4:14
    74%

    14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

  • Ps 10:15
    74%

    15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

  • Ps 37:12
    74%

    12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

  • Ps 94:13
    74%

    13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

  • Prov 13:6
    74%

    6 Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Ps 34:21
    74%

    21 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

  • Prov 21:10
    74%

    10 The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    73%

    13 As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness;' but my hand shall not be on you.

  • Ps 37:7
    73%

    7 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

  • Prov 14:19
    73%

    19 The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  • Prov 22:23
    73%

    23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

  • Job 22:18
    73%

    18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Prov 15:6
    73%

    6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

  • Prov 12:3
    73%

    3 A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

  • Prov 18:5
    73%

    5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

  • Prov 11:8
    73%

    8 A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

  • Exod 23:7
    73%

    7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

  • Prov 12:12
    73%

    12 The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

  • Prov 10:24
    73%

    24 What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

  • Prov 12:26
    73%

    26 A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

  • Ps 28:3
    73%

    3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Prov 10:3
    73%

    3 Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

  • Prov 1:18
    73%

    18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Job 18:21
    73%

    21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

  • Job 11:14
    73%

    14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

  • Ps 37:14
    73%

    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Prov 11:18
    73%

    18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.