Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs 1:11 in other translations
| BSB | If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, |
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| WEB | If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. |
| ASV | If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; |
| YLT | If they say, ‘Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, |
| DARBY | If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; |
| BBE | If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; |
| Webster | If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: |
What does Proverbs 1:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 1:10-19
10-19. A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent ... not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 1:10-19
Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Consent thou not." Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do; have no fellowship with them. Who could think that it should be a pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldly wealth…
Proverbs 1:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 1:11
- 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.
- Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
- 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. Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from 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 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- Matthew 26:3-4
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
- Micah 7:2
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
- John 15:25
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
- 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. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
- 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.
- Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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Context
- Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
- Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
- Proverbs 1:12
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Proverbs 1:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si dijeren: Ven con nosotros, pongamos asechanzas á la sangre, acechemos sin motivo al inocente; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | S’ils disent: Viens avec nous, nous serons aux embûches pour le sang, nous nous cacherons pour guetter l’innocent, sans cause; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn sie sagen: Geh mit uns, wir wollen auf Blut lauern, wollen den Unschuldigen nachstellen ohne Ursache; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si dixerint: Veni nobiscum, insidiemur sanguini; abscondamus tendiculas contra insontem frustra; |