Proverbs 1:19
That is what happens to people who eagerly try to get things by violently attacking others. They will only destroy themselves!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
20Wisdom [PRS] shouts to people in the streets, and calls out to people in the ◄plazas/town squares►.
Cross References
Joshua 7:25Joshua said, “◄I do not know why you caused so much trouble for us/You have caused a lot of trouble for us► [RHQ], but now Yahweh will cause trouble for you.” Then all the people threw stones at Achan and his family until they all died. Then the people burned their corpses.
2 Kings 5:20But then Elisha’s servant Gehazi said to himself, “It is not good that my master allowed this Syrian man to leave like this. He should have accepted his gifts. So just as certainly as Yahweh lives, I will go and catch up with Naaman and get something from him.”
Psalms 7:16They themselves will experience the trouble that they want to cause others to have; they will hurt themselves by the violent things that they want to do to others.
Proverbs 23:3Do not want to eat a lot of his fine food, because he may be trying to trick you.
Ecclesiastes 5:13I have seen another terrible thing that happens here on the earth [MTY]: People save up all their money and become rich, but they are not helped by saving a lot of money,
Micah 2:1Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night, planning to do wicked things. You get up at dawn, and you do those things, as soon as you are able to do them.
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 →