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.”

“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 point of the teaching is not the liability of good men to err, but God’s providential care over them (compare the margin reference). “Seven times” is a certain for an uncertain number (compare Job 5:19). In contrast with this is the fate of the evildoers, who fall utterly even in a single distress. return to 'Top of Page'”

“24:15-16 Saying 27: Those who are godly will not allow a setback to keep them down. • Seven times is symbolic for “many times.””

“Lay: Pro 1:11; Sa1 9:11, Sa1 22:18, Sa1 22:19, Sa1 23:20-23; Psa 10:8-10, Psa 37:32, Psa 56:6, Psa 59:3; Psa 140:5; Jer 11:19; Mat 26:4; Act 9:24, Act 23:16, Act 25:3 spoil: Pro 22:28; Isa 32:18 Proverbs 24:16”

“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. The ארב \[lying in wait\] and שׁדּד \[practising violence\], against which the warning is here given, are not directed, as at Pro 1:11; Pro 19:26, immediately against the person, but against the dwelling-place and resting-place (רבץ, e.g., Jer 50:6, as also נוה, 3:33) of the righteous, who, on his part, does injustice and wrong to no one; the warning is against coveting his house, Exo 20:17, and driving him by cunning and violence out of it. Instead of רשׁע, Symmachus and…”