Proverbs 1:18

In 11 translations

BSB

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

KJV

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

WEB

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

ASV

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

LSV

And they lay wait for their own blood, || They watch secretly for their own lives.

YLT

And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

DBY

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

DRC

And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.

GNV

So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

JPS

And these lie in wait for their own blood, they lurk for their own lives.

LXXE

For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְ֭הֵם לְדָמָ֣ם יֶאֱרֹ֑בוּ יִ֝צְפְּנ֗וּ לְנַפְשֹׁתָֽם׃

LXX-Br

Αὐτοὶ γὰρ οἱ φόνου μετέχοντες, θησαυρίζουσιν ἑαυτοῖς κακά· ἡ δὲ καταστροφὴ ἀνδρῶν παρανόμων κακή.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
• Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
• Proverbs 5:22–23The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him. He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
• Proverbs 28:17A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
• Psalms 7:14–16Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood. He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making. His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence…
• Matthew 27:4–5“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.” So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
• Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
• Proverbs 9:17–18“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!” But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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