Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who gains riches by injustice; 1 unjust gain takes away the lives of those who hold on to it. 1
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In Context
18These men lie in wait for their own blood— 1 they set an ambush for their own lives. 1
20Wisdom cries aloud in the street, 1 she raises her voice in the open places; 1
Cross References
Joshua 7:25Then Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones. Then they stoned the rest with stones and burned them with fire.
2 Kings 5:20He had traveled only a short distance, when Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God said to himself, “Look, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean by not receiving from his hands gifts that he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him and receive something from him.”
Psalms 7:16His own destructive plans return to his own head, 1 for his violence comes down on his own head. 1
Proverbs 23:3Do not crave his delicacies, 1 for it is the food of lies. 1
Ecclesiastes 5:13There is an evil that I have seen under the sun: 1 riches hoarded by the owner, resulting in his own misery. 1
Micah 2:1Woe to those who plan iniquity, 1 to those who plan on their beds to do evil. 1 In the morning light they do it 1 because they have power. 1
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 →