Proverbs 1:18
However, these evil people hide ready to kill others, but they themselves are the victims. They're only ambushing themselves!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
In Context
17There's no point in trying to lure birds into a net when they can see it.
19This is what happens to you if you try to become rich through crime—it kills you!
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they impaled Haman on the pole that he had set up for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king died down.
Psalms 9:16The Lord is known for his fairness; the wicked are trapped by their own actions. Higgaion. Selah.
Proverbs 5:22The wicked are trapped by their evil actions; the cords of their sins tie them up.
Proverbs 11:5The goodness of the innocent keeps them on track, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
Matthew 27:4“I've sinned! I've betrayed innocent blood!” he told them. “What's that got to do with us?” they replied. “That's your problem!”
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 →