Proverbs 1:11

In 11 translations

BSB

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

KJV

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

WEB

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

ASV

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

LSV

If they say, “Come with us, we lay wait for blood, || We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

YLT

If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

DBY

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

DRC

If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:

GNV

If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:

JPS

If they say: 'Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk for the innocent without cause;

LXXE

If they should exhort thee, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:

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Original-language editions

WLC

אִם־יֹאמְרוּ֮ לְכָ֪ה אִ֫תָּ֥נוּ נֶאֶרְבָ֥ה לְדָ֑ם נִצְפְּנָ֖ה לְנָקִ֣י חִנָּֽם׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν παρακαλέσωσί σε, λέγοντες, ἐλθὲ μεθʼ ἡμῶν, κοινώνησον αἵματος, κρύψωμεν δὲ εἰς γῆν ἄνδρα δίκαιον ἀδίκως,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
• Proverbs 12:6The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
• Jeremiah 5:26For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
• Acts 25:3to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
• Jeremiah 18:18–20Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his…
• Acts 23:15Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”
• Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered…
• John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
• Psalms 17:12like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
• Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
• Psalms 10:8–10He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless. He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his…
• Psalms 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
• Proverbs 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
• Micah 7:2The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
• Psalms 64:5–6They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say. They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
• Psalms 56:6They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

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