Text -- Proverbs 24:15 (NET)

24:15 Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 24:15

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.