Proverbs 1:16
For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
In Context
15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
17Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
Cross References
Proverbs 4:16For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
Isaiah 59:7Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.
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 →