Proverbs 1:18 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁸ But they lie in wait for their own blood, They ambush 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.

Proverbs 1:18 Cross References

Esther 7:10

And they hanged Haman on the wooden structure that he had prepared for Mordeḵai, and the sovereign’s wrath abated.

Psalm 55:23

For You, O Elohim, do bring them down To the pit of destruction; Men of blood and deceit do not reach half their days; But I, I trust in You.

Psalm 9:16

יהוה has made Himself known, He has done right-ruling; The wrong is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause.

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird.

Proverbs 11:19

Thus righteousness leads to life, And one pursuing evil, to his own death.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the perfect Makes his way straight, But by his own wrongness the wrong one falls.

Proverbs 28:17

A man oppressed by blood-guilt flees into a pit; Let no one help him.

Romans 2:5

But according to your hardness and your unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of Elohim,