Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
10My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.
12We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
Cross References
Psalms 10:8He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.
Psalms 35:7For without cause they haue hid the pit and their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.
Psalms 64:5They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?
Proverbs 1:18So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
Proverbs 24:15Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.
Proverbs 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore 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 →