"For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood." — Proverbs 1:16

Proverbs 1:16 · KJV

“For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.”

— Proverbs 1:16

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. {in the...: Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing}

Proverbs 1 — Context

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. {in the...: Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing}

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

Cross References

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts {are} thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction {are} in their paths. {destruction: Heb. breaking}

Proverbs 6:18

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause {some} to fall.

Romans 3:5

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? {Is} God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)