Proverbs 24:15 · World English Bible
Proverbs 24:15 Meaning Don’t Lay in Wait
Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;
What does Proverbs 24:15 mean?
The one called wicked is not another person but the ego in the mind, forever plotting against the quiet the mind has begun to find. It cannot bear the resting place of a mind at peace, because that peace is the end of the ego's whole argument, and so it lies in wait to disturb it.
From the Christian Psychology reading below.
Proverbs 24:15 through 1 lens
The same verse, read by one tradition.
Christian Psychology
CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
Christian Psychology
The one called wicked is not another person but the ego in the mind, forever plotting against the quiet the mind has begun to find. It cannot bear the resting place of a mind at peace, because that peace is the end of the ego's whole argument, and so it lies in wait to disturb it.
The dwelling it besieges is the still center where the mind rests in love and needs no defense. What the ego wants to spoil is not property but that repose, for a mind that has stopped fearing has stopped listening to fear, and the ego lives only while it is heard.
Wicked man: the ego in the mind, always plotting to break the peace it cannot share Dwelling of the righteous: the quiet center where the mind rests in love and needs no defense, the peace the ego most wants to disturb
Christian Psychology lensGo deeper in the app
Christian Psychology lens
Live Proverbs 24:15 today
- Protect one quiet stretch today, even fifteen minutes, with your phone face down and out of reach. Treat the interruption you were about to allow as the thing to say no to.
- When someone tries to pull you into their agitation, stay warm but do not take the bait. You can care about them without joining the storm.
- On a bad afternoon, when the urge is to open everything at once, tabs, messages, news, close instead. Give yourself three slow breaths before you pick what actually needs you.
What keeps getting into my quiet because I keep leaving the door open?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 16
Return to stillness and you find the root. Everything restless in you is circling something that was never disturbed.
Buddhism · Dhammapada
The untamed mind is its own worst enemy, doing you more harm than any opponent could. Guard the quiet the way you would guard a house.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
You can withdraw into yourself at any hour. No one can break into that place unless you hand them the key.
Free · No account needed
Read all of Proverbs 24 through 17 lenses
Lensightful opens every verse of the Bible through the traditions you choose. Save readings, ask a follow-up question, and get one verse a day.
Get Lensightful on the App Store