Proverbs 1:18
So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
In Context
17Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the tree, that he had prepared for Mordecai: then was the Kings wrath pacified.
Psalms 9:16The Lord is knowen by executing iudgement: the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne handes. Higgaion. Selah.
Proverbs 5:22His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousnes of the vpright shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall in his owne wickednes.
Matthew 27:4Saying, I haue sinned, betraying the innocent bloud. But they sayde, What is that to vs? see thou to it.
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 →