Proverbs 1:18
And these lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their own lives.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
In Context
17For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes of any bird:
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
Psalms 9:16The LORD hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higaion. Selah
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Matthew 27:4saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? 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 →