Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
the Second Week after Easter
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

King James Version

Proverbs 1:18

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Greed/gluttony;   Profit;   Theft;   Violence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Call of God, the;   Covetousness;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Proverbs, Theology of;   Work;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Net;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ambush;   Proverbs, Book of;   Violence;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lurk;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but they set an ambush to kill themselves;they attack their own lives.
Hebrew Names Version
These lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
English Standard Version
but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.
New Century Version
But sinners will fall into their own traps; they will only catch themselves!
New English Translation
but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
Amplified Bible
But [when these people set a trap for others] they lie in wait for their own blood; They set an ambush for their own lives [and rush to their destruction].
New American Standard Bible
But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.
World English Bible
These lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
Legacy Standard Bible
But they lie in wait for their own blood;They ambush their own lives.
Berean Standard Bible
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
Contemporary English Version
They gang up to murder someone, but they are the victims.
Complete Jewish Bible
rather, they are ambushing themselves to shed their own blood, waylaying themselves.
Darby Translation
And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Easy-to-Read Version
But evil people cannot see the trap they set for themselves.
George Lamsa Translation
And they lie in wait, they hide themselves to shed blood.
Good News Translation
but people like that are setting a trap for themselves, a trap in which they will die.
Lexham English Bible
They lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives.
Literal Translation
And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own souls.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee they the selues laye wayte one for anothers bloude, and one of the wolde slaye another.
American Standard Version
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
Bible in Basic English
And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And these lie in wait for their own blood, they lurk for their own lives.
King James Version (1611)
And they lay wait for their owne blood, they lurke priuily for their owne liues.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So these lay wayte for the blood of them, and lye priuily for their liues.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
English Revised Version
And these lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their own lives.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also `thilke wickid disseyueris setten aspies ayens her owne blood; and maken redi fraudis ayens her soulis.
Update Bible Version
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
New King James Version
But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives.
New Living Translation
But these people set an ambush for themselves; they are trying to get themselves killed.
New Life Bible
They set traps for their own lives and wait to die.
New Revised Standard
yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yet, they, for their own blood, lie in wait, They watch in secret for their own life.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
Revised Standard Version
but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.
Young's Literal Translation
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.

Contextual Overview

10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 5:23, Proverbs 9:17, Proverbs 9:18, Proverbs 28:17, Esther 7:10, Psalms 7:14-16, Psalms 9:16, Psalms 55:23, Matthew 27:4, Matthew 27:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:13 - General Numbers 16:38 - sinners Numbers 35:20 - by laying Esther 5:14 - he caused Job 31:31 - Oh Proverbs 1:11 - let us lurk Proverbs 11:18 - wicked Proverbs 13:2 - the soul Proverbs 21:7 - robbery Jeremiah 5:26 - lay wait Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Jeremiah 44:7 - against Habakkuk 2:10 - sinned

Cross-References

Psalms 19:6
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Jeremiah 31:35
Thus saith the Lord , which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they lay wait for their [own] blood,.... While they lie in wait for the blood of others, they lie in wait for their own; and when they shed the blood of innocent persons, it in the issue comes upon their own heads, and is the cause of their own blood being shed; vengeance pursues them, and justice will not suffer them to live;

they lurk privily for their [own] lives: while they are lurking in secret places to take away, the lives of others, they are laying snares for their own souls; and the consequence of it will be, that they will be brought to a shameful and untimely end here, or, however, to everlasting ruin and destruction hereafter.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 1:18. They lay wait for their own blood — I believe it is the innocent who are spoken of here, for whose blood and lives these lay wait and lurk privily; certainly not their own, by any mode of construction.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile