Proverbs 1:13
We will discover every precious substance. We will fill our houses with spoils.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
In Context
12Let us swallow him alive, like Hell, and whole, like one descending into the pit.
14Cast your lot with us. One purse will be for us all.”
Cross References
Proverbs 1:19Thus, the ways of all those who are greedy seize the souls of those who possess.
Jeremiah 22:16He judged the case of the poor and the indigent for their good. Was this not because he knew me, says the Lord?
Amos 3:10And they do not know how to make it right, says the Lord, storing up iniquity and plunder in their buildings.
Haggai 2:9Mine is the silver, and mine is the gold, says the Lord of hosts.
1 Timothy 6:9For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many useless and harmful desires, which submerge men in destruction and in perdition.
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 →