Proverbs 24:15

Do not lie in wait like the wicked ¹  against the place where the righteous live; do not assault ²  his home.

1Sa 9:11; 1Sa 22:18,19; 1Sa 23:20-23; Ps 10:8-10; Ps 37:32; Ps 56:6; Ps 59:3; Ps 140:5; Pr 1:11; Pr 22:28; Isa 32:18; Jer 11:19; Mt 26:4; Ac 9:24; Ac 23:16; Ac 25:3

¹ tn The word “wicked” could be taken as a vocative (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, “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 sn 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.