Proverbs 1:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.

Psalm 56:6

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 1:18

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

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood: But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Proverbs 24:15

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Spoil not his resting place:

Proverbs 29:24

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.

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.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led 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.

Jeremiah 5:26

For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

Micah 7:2

The godly 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 may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

Acts 23:15

Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to slay him.

Acts 25:3

asking favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying wait to kill him on the way.