Proverbs 1:19
So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
20Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
Cross References
Joshua 7:25And Joshua saith, 'What! thou hast troubled us! — Jehovah doth trouble thee this day;' and all Israel cast stones at him, and they burn them with fire, and they stone them with stones,
2 Kings 5:20And Gehazi, servant of Elisha the man of God, saith, 'Lo, my lord hath spared Naaman this Aramaean, not to receive from his hand that which he brought; Jehovah liveth; surely if I have run after him, then I have taken from him something.'
Psalms 7:16Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
Proverbs 23:3Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it [is] lying food.
Ecclesiastes 5:13There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
Micah 2:1Woe [to] those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is — to God.
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 →