Proverbs 1:18

For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

In Context

17for nets are not without cause spread for birds.

19These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:16The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.

Proverbs 5:22Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.

Proverbs 11:5Righteousness + 11:5 Gr. right divides.traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing.

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 →

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