Proverbs 1:18
and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
In Context
17For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird,
19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.
Psalms 9:16LORD has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
Matthew 27:4saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is it to us? See thou to it.
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 →