Proverbs 1:11
If they say—Come with us,—Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
10My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.
12Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit;
Cross References
Psalms 10:8He abideth in the lurking-place of villages, In the hiding-places, he murdereth the innocent,—His eyes, for the unfortunate, are on the watch:
Psalms 35:7For, without cause, have they hid for me, in a ditch, their net,—Without cause, have they digged [a pit] for my life.
Psalms 64:5They strengthen for them a wicked word, They talk of hiding snares, They have said, Who can see them?
Proverbs 1:18Yet, they, for their own blood, lie in wait, They watch in secret for their own life.
Proverbs 24:15Do not lie in wait, thou lawless man, against the home of the righteous,—neither destroy thou his place of rest;
Proverbs 30:14A generation! Swords, are its teeth, and, knives, its incisors,—to devour the humbled out of the earth, and the needy, 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 →