Proverbs 1:11
If they say, “Come with us, we lay wait for blood, || We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
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In Context
10My son, if sinners entice you, do not be willing.
12We swallow them as Sheol—alive, || And whole—as those going down [to] the pit,
Cross References
Psalms 10:8He sits in an ambush of the villages, || He slays the innocent in secret places. His eyes secretly watch for the afflicted,
Psalms 35:7For without cause they hid their net [in] a pit for me, || Without cause they dug for my soul.
Psalms 64:5They strengthen an evil thing for themselves, || They recount of the hiding of snares, || They have said, “Who looks at it?”
Proverbs 1:18And they lay wait for their own blood, || They watch secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 24:15Do not lay wait, O wicked one, || At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting place.
Proverbs 30:14A generation—their teeth [are] swords, || And their jaw-teeth [are] knives, || To consume the poor from earth, || And the needy from [among] men.
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 →