Proverbs 1:19
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
20Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;
Cross References
Joshua 7:25And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.
2 Kings 5:20But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.
Psalms 7:16\7:15\He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made
Proverbs 23:3Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
Ecclesiastes 5:13\5:14\And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
Micah 2:1A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
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 →