Proverbs 1:18
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
In Context
17Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
19So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
Cross References
Esther 7:10And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
Psalms 9:16Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.
Matthew 27:4'I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, 'What — to us? thou shalt see!'
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 →