Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 1:11
11Suppose they say: “Come with us! Let’s lie in wait for blood! Let’s ambush the innocent— for no reason!
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
9For they are a garland of grace for your head and a chain to adorn your neck. 10My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in. Suppose they say: “Come with us! Let’s lie in wait for blood! Let’s ambush the innocent— for no reason! 12Let’s swallow them alive like Sheol— still healthy, as they go down to the Pit! 13We’ll find all sorts of valuable things, we’ll fill our homes with loot!
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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 1:16for their feet run to evil and they are swift to shed blood.
- Proverbs 12:6The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.
- Proverbs 30:14There is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose molars are knives, to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity.
- Psalms 56:6All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- Psalms 64:5to shoot from hiding at the innocent, shooting suddenly at him, with no fear.
- Jeremiah 5:26For among My people are wicked men, watching like bait-layers lying in wait. They set a trap—they catch men.
- Micah 7:2The pious have perished from the land, there is none upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood. A man hunts his brother with a net.
- Acts 23:15So now you and the Sanhedrin serve notice to the commander to bring him down to you—like you are about to investigate his case more thoroughly. But we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
- Acts 25:3asking a favor—to have Paul sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the road.
- Proverbs 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives.
- Psalms 10:8He lies in ambush near villages. In hidden places he slays the innocent. His eyes watch in secret for the helpless.
- Psalms 17:12like a lion eager to tear to pieces, like a young lion crouching in cover.
- Psalms 35:7For without cause they hid their net for me, and without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
- Jeremiah 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter. I did not know they had devised plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be no more remembered.”
- Jeremiah 18:18Then they said: “Come, let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely Torah from the kohen will not be lost, nor will counsel from the wise, nor will the word from the prophet. Come, let’s strike at him with the tongue, and pay no attention to any of his words.”
- Matthew 26:3Then the ruling kohanim and elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the kohen gadol named 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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