Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:
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In Context
10My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Cross References
Psalms 10:8He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privately set against the poor.
Psalms 35:7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.
Psalms 64:5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privately; they say, Who shall see them?
Proverbs 1:18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.
Proverbs 24:15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Proverbs 30:14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off 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 →