Proverbs 1:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁸ And these lay wait for their own blood, They lurk privily 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 hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.

Psalm 9:16

The LORD hath made himself known, he hath executed judgement: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah

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 1:17

For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes of any bird:

Proverbs 11:19

He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life: And he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 28:17

A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.

Romans 2:5

but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God;