Proverbs 24:15

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Proverbs 24:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible

13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

14 Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.

15 Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

16 For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.

17 Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

1 Samuel 9:11

And as they were climbing the hill to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here?”

1 Samuel 22:18

So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 22:19

He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

1 Samuel 23:20

Now, O king, come down whenever your soul desires, and we will be responsible for delivering him into your hand.”

1 Samuel 23:21

“May you be blessed by the LORD,” replied Saul, “for you have had compassion on me.

1 Samuel 23:22

Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

1 Samuel 23:23

Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”

Psalms 10:8

He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

Psalms 10:9

He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

Psalms 10:10

They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.

Psalms 37:32

Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,

Psalms 56:6

They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

Psalms 59:3

See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.

Psalms 140:5

The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

Jeremiah 11:19

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

Matthew 26:4

and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.

Acts 9:24

but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.

Acts 23:16

But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.

Acts 25:3

to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

Proverbs 22:28

Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.

Isaiah 32:18

Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure places of rest.