Proverbs 1:18 “But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.”

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

American Standard Version

And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

Geneva Bible 1599

So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

Darby Translation

And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

Young's Literal Translation

And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

Bible in Basic English

And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

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Cross references

“And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.”

Psalm 9:16 Esther 7:10 Proverbs 28:17 Psalm 7:14–16 Psalm 55:23 Proverbs 5:22

Psalm 9:16 · BSB

The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah

Esther 7:10 · BSB

So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

Proverbs 28:17 · BSB

A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.

Psalm 7:14–16 · BSB

Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

Psalm 55:23 · BSB

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Proverbs 5:22 · BSB

The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

19Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

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