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Proverbs 1:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

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Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.

Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.

So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death.

Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.




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