Proverbs 1:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised If they say #– #‘Come with us! Let’s set an ambush and kill someone. Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; Common English Bible 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 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 If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause: |
but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.
The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
Don’t set an ambush, you wicked one, at the camp of the righteous man; don’t destroy his dwelling.
To be a thief’s partner is to hate oneself; he hears the curse but will not testify.
There is a generation whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, devouring the oppressed from the land and the needy from among mankind.
for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me: ‘Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit; let’s cut him off from the land of the living so that his name will no longer be remembered.’
for wicked men live among my people. They watch like hunters lying in wait. , They set a trap; they catch men.
Faithful people have vanished from the land; there is no one upright among the people. All of them wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt each other with a net.
But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled: They hated me for no reason. ,
So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. But, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.’
asking for a favour against Paul, that Festus summon him to Jerusalem. They were, in fact, preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.