Proverbs 1:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹¹ If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us wantonly ambush the innocent;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ If they say, Come with us; let us lie in wait [to shed] blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause [and show that his piety is in vain];

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

Common English Bible

¹¹ when they say: “Come with us. Let’s set up a deadly ambush. Let’s secretly wait for the innocent just for fun.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ If they should say: "Come with us. We will lie in wait for blood. We will lay traps against the innocent, without cause.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:

Proverbs 1:11 Cross References

Psalm 17:12

They are like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.

Psalm 56:6

They band themselves together, they lurk, they watch my steps. As they have waited for my life,

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 1:18

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers men.

Proverbs 24:15

Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violence to his home;

Proverbs 29:24

The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.

Proverbs 30:14

There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among men.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”

Jeremiah 5:26

For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Micah 7:2

The godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts his brother with a net.

John 15:25

It is to fulfil the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Acts 23:15

You therefore, along with the council, give notice now to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Acts 25:3

asking as a favor to have the man sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the way.