God’s Word Translation
Proverbs 1:11
11If they say, “Come with us. Let’s set an ambush to kill someone. Let’s hide to ambush innocent people for fun.
Proverbs 1:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
- New International Version (NIV)If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent blood, let’s ambush some harmless soul;
- English Standard Version (ESV)If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;
- New King James Version (NKJV)If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Context of Proverbs 1:11
9because discipline and teachings are a graceful garland on your head and a ⌞golden⌟ chain around your neck. 10My son, if sinners lure you, do not go along. If they say, “Come with us. Let’s set an ambush to kill someone. Let’s hide to ambush innocent people for fun. 12We’ll swallow them alive like the grave, like those in good health who go into the pit. 13We’ll find all kinds of valuable possessions. We’ll fill our homes with stolen goods.
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אִם־יֹאמְרוּ֮ לְכָ֪ה אִ֫תָּ֥נוּ נֶאֶרְבָ֥ה לְדָ֑ם נִצְפְּנָ֖ה לְנָקִ֣י חִנָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 1:11
- Proverbs 1:16because they rush to do evil and hurry to shed blood.
- Proverbs 12:6The words of wicked people are a deadly ambush, but the words of decent people rescue.
- Proverbs 30:14A certain kind of person, whose teeth are like swords and whose jaws are ⌞like⌟ knives, devours oppressed people from the earth and people from among humanity.
- Psalms 56:6They attack, and then they hide. They watch my every step as they wait to take my life.
- Psalms 64:5They encourage one another in their evil plans. They talk about setting traps and say, “Who can see them?”
- Jeremiah 5:26“Wicked people are found among my people. They lie in ambush like bird catchers. They set traps and catch people.
- Micah 7:2Faithful people are gone from the earth, and no one is decent. All people lie in ambush to commit murder. They trap each other with nets.
- Acts 23:15Here’s our plan: You and the council must go to the Roman officer on the pretext that you need more information from Paul. You have to make it look as though you want to get more accurate information about him. We’ll be ready to kill him before he gets to you.”
- Acts 25:3Festus to do them the favor of having Paul brought to Jerusalem. The Jews had a plan to ambush and kill Paul as he traveled to Jerusalem.
- Proverbs 1:18But these people set an ambush for their own murder. They go into hiding only to lose their lives.
- Psalms 10:8He waits in ambush in the villages. From his hiding places he kills innocent people. His eyes are on the lookout for victims.
- Psalms 17:12Each one of them is like a lion eager to tear ⌞its prey⌟ apart and like a young lion crouching in hiding places.
- Psalms 35:7For no reason they hid their net in a pit. For no reason they dug the pit ⌞to trap me⌟.
- Jeremiah 11:19I was like a trusting lamb brought to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they were plotting against me. They were saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit. Let’s cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we won’t be reminded of him anymore.”
- Jeremiah 18:18Then they said, “Let’s plot against Jeremiah, because the teachings of the priests, the advice of wise people, and the word of the prophets won’t disappear. Accuse him! Pay no attention to anything he says.”
- Matthew 26:3Then the chief priests and the leaders of the people gathered in the palace of the chief priest Caiaphas.
Commentaries on Proverbs 1:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11If they say, Come with us - From all accounts, this is precisely the way in which the workers of iniquity form their partisans, and constitute their marauding societies to the present day. Let us lay wait for blood - Let us rob and murder. Let us lurk privily - Let us lie in ambush for our prey.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11The temptation against which the teacher seeks to guard his disciple is that of joining a band of highway robbers. The “vain men” who gathered around Jephthah Judges 11:3, the lawless or discontented who came to David in Adullam 1 Samuel 22:2, the bands of robbers who infested every part of the country in the period of the New Testament, and against whom every Roman governor had to wage incessant war, show how deeply rooted the evil was in Palestine…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-19Verses 10-19 Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Consent thou not." Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do; have no fellowship with them. Who could think that it should be a pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldly wealth; but it is neither…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-19The father warns his child not to join a group of wrongdoers planning to attack innocent people. Their evil actions will eventually harm them (see Proverbs 28:10; Psalms 9:15; 35:8). The evil path involves violence and theft.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1910-19. A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent ... not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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