Proverbs 1:18
And they lay wait for their own blood, || They watch secretly for their own lives.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
In Context
17Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
19So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, || It takes the life of its owners.
Cross References
Esther 7:10And they hang Haman on the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king has lain down.
Psalms 9:16YHWH has been known, || He has done judgment; By a work of his hands || The wicked has been snared. Meditation. Selah.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect makes his way right, || And by his wickedness the wicked fall.
Matthew 27:4“I sinned, having delivered up innocent blood”; and they said, “What [is that] to us? You will see!”
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 →