New King James Version
Proverbs 1:11
11If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
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 Living Translation (NLT)They may say, “Come and join us. Let’s hide and kill someone! Just for fun, let’s ambush the innocent!
Context of Proverbs 1:11
9For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck. 10My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 12Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit; 13We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
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אִם־יֹאמְרוּ֮ לְכָ֪ה אִ֫תָּ֥נוּ נֶאֶרְבָ֥ה לְדָ֑ם נִצְפְּנָ֖ה לְנָקִ֣י חִנָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 1:11
- Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
- Proverbs 12:6The words of the wicked are, “Lie in wait for blood,” But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.
- Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And whose fangs are like knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.
- Psalms 56:6They gather together, They hide, they mark my steps, When they lie in wait for my life.
- Psalms 64:5They encourage themselves in an evil matter; They talk of laying snares secretly; They say, “Who will see them?”
- Jeremiah 5:26‘For among My people are found wicked men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men.
- Micah 7:2The faithful man has perished from 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.
- Acts 23:15Now you, therefore, together with the council, suggest to the commander that he be brought down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to make further inquiries concerning him; but we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
- Acts 25:3asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem—while they lay in ambush along the road to kill him.
- Proverbs 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives.
- Psalms 10:8He sits in the lurking places of the villages; In the secret places he murders the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.
- Psalms 17:12As a lion is eager to tear his prey, And like a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, Which they have dug without cause for my life.
- Jeremiah 11:19But I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
- Jeremiah 18:18Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
- Matthew 26:3Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called 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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