"If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:" — Proverbs 1:11

Proverbs 1:11 · KJV

“If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:”

— Proverbs 1:11

Verse 10

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Verse 12

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Proverbs 1 — Context

For they {shall be} an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. {an...: Heb. an adding}

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Cross References

Proverbs 1:18

And they lay wait for their {own} blood; they lurk privily for their {own} lives.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among my people are found wicked {men}: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. {they lay...: or, they pry as fowlers lie in wait}

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked {are} to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Acts 25:3

And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.

Jeremiah 18:18-20

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. {with...: or, for the tongue}

Psalms 56:6

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

Proverbs 30:14

{There 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.

Psalms 10:8-10

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. {are...: Heb. hide themselves}