Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
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Gill's Exposition
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…
The teaching of the proverb warns men not to attack or plot against the righteous. They will lose their labor, “Though the just man fall (not into sin, but into calamities), yet he riseth up.” The…
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…
Cambridge Bible
O wickedman], Or, as a wickedman.
dwelling … resting place or pasture … fold(R.V. marg.); making the picture pastoral.
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