He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Proverbs 1:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) If they say, *Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 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: |
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:
Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their Torah, 'They hated me without a cause.'
Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.*
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Yerushalayim; plotting to kill him on the way.