Proverbs 1:18
And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
In Context
17But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
19So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.
Psalms 9:16I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they have prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
Proverbs 11:5The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
Matthew 27:4Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? look 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 →