Proverbs 1:18
While they lie in wait for their [own] blood; they watch in concealment for their [own] lives.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
In Context
17For uselessly is the net spread out before the eyes of every winged bird:
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king was appeased.
Psalms 9:16(9:17) The Lord is made known: he executed justice: through the doing of his own hands is the wicked ensnared. Higgayon, Selah.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect maketh even his way; but by his own wickedness will the wicked fall.
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 →