Proverbs 1:13
All costly substance, shall we find, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
In Context
12Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit;
14Thy lot, shalt thou cast into our midst, One purse, shall there be, for us all.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:19Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away!
Jeremiah 22:16[Did he not] plead the cause of the oppressed and the needy, And, then, it was well? Was not, that, to know, me? Demandeth Yahweh.
Amos 3:10Therefore do they not know how to do right, Declareth Yahweh, who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.
Haggai 2:9Greater shall be the last glory of this house than the first, saith Yahweh of hosts,—and, in this place, will I give prosperity, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.
1 Timothy 6:9But, they who are determined to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful covetings, the which, sink men into ruin and destruction,—
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 →