Proverbs 24:15 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:15

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:15-16: This is spoken, not so much by way of counsel to wicked men (they will not receive instruction, Pro 23:9), but rather in defiance of them, for the encouragement of good people that are threatened by them. See here, 1. The designs of the wicked against the righteous, and the success they promise themselves in those designs.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:15: For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again,.... This is to be understood of a truly just man; not of one that is only outwardly and seemingly so, or of temporary believers and nominal professors; but of such who are thoroughly convinced of their own unrighteousness, and believe in Christ for righteousness, and have it applied and imputed to them; as well...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 24:15: The plots of the wicked against the good, though partially, shall not be fully successful (Psa 37:24); while the wicked, falling under penal evil, find no help.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 24:15-16: Pro 24:15-16 15 Lie not in wait, oh wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Assault not his resting-place. 16 For seven times doth the righteous fall and rise again, But the wicked are overthrown when calamity falls on them.