Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
20Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
Cross References
Joshua 7:25Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
2 Kings 5:20But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”
Psalms 7:16The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
Proverbs 23:3Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
Ecclesiastes 5:13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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 →