Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.
Cross References
Psalms 10:8He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man.
Psalms 35:7For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.
Psalms 64:5They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They converse of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?
Proverbs 1:18and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 24:15Lay not in wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Do not destroy his resting place.
Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:11-20
Parental Admonitions. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to… Read the whole commentary →