Proverbs 1:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And they lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ But [when these men set a trap for others] they are lying in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ But these sinners set up a deadly ambush; they lie in wait for their own lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Likewise, they lie in ambush against their own blood, and they undertake deceits against their own souls.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.

Proverbs 1:18 Cross References

Esther 7:10

So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Psalm 9:16

The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us wantonly ambush the innocent;

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is the net baited while the bird is looking on;

Proverbs 11:19

Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but whoever pursues evil will die.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless keeps their ways straight, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.

Proverbs 28:17

If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.