Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
If they say, "Come with us! Let's lie in wait for blood; let's ambush some innocent person for no reason at all.
New American Standard Bible
Let us
Let us
King James Version
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Holman Bible
Let’s set an ambush
Let’s attack some innocent person
A Conservative Version
If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
American Standard Version
If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
Amplified
If they say, “Come with us;
Let us lie in wait to shed blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;
Bible in Basic English
If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
Darby Translation
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Julia Smith Translation
If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;
King James 2000
If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:
Lexham Expanded Bible
If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.
Modern King James verseion
If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:
NET Bible
If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
New Heart English Bible
If they say, "Come with us, Let's lie in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
The Emphasized Bible
If they say - Come with us, - Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;
Webster
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
World English Bible
If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Youngs Literal Translation
If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Exhortations to shun all inducements to
Birds » Illustrative » (snaring,) of designs of the wicked
Character » Of the wicked » Enticing to evil
Character of the wicked » Enticing to evil
Murder » The wicked » Encourage others to commit
Profit » Those that profit from violence
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 1:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young
10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. 11 If they say, "Come with us! Let's lie in wait for blood; let's ambush some innocent person for no reason at all. 12 Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those who go down into the Pit.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 1:18
but these people lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush only themselves.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked lead to bloodshed, but the speech of the upright delivers them.
Jeremiah 5:26
"Evil men are found among my people. They lie in wait like someone who traps birds. They set a trap, but they do so to catch people.
Psalm 10:8-10
They wait in ambush in the villages, they kill the innocent in secret.
Psalm 17:12
Like a lion they desire to rip us to pieces, like a young lion waiting in ambush.
Psalm 35:7
Without justification they laid a snare for me; without justification they dug a pit to trap me.
Psalm 56:6
They gather together and hide in ambush. They watch my every step as they lie in wait for my life.
Psalm 64:5-6
They concoct an evil scheme for themselves; they enumerate their hidden snares; they say, "Who will see them?"
Proverbs 1:16
For they run toward evil; these enticers shed blood without hesitation.
Proverbs 30:14
Some people have swords for teeth and knives for fangs to devour the afflicted from the earth and the needy from among mankind.
Jeremiah 11:19
I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised schemes against me. They told themselves, "Let's destroy the tree with its fruit. Let's eliminate him from the land of the living, so his name won't be remembered again."
Jeremiah 18:18-20
Then they said, "Come, let's make up a plot against Jeremiah. After all, the priest's instruction, the wise man's counsel, and the prophet's message won't be destroyed. So let's verbally attack him. Pay no attention to anything he says!"
Micah 7:2
The faithful have died off, and there is not one upright human being in the land. They all stalk one another with lethal intent, a man will even hunt his own brother with a net.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then the high priests and the elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
John 15:25
But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: "They hated me for no reason.'
Acts 23:15
Now then, you and the Council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you on the pretext that you want to look into his case more carefully, but before he arrives we'll be ready to kill him."
Acts 25:3
and asking Festus to have Paul brought to Jerusalem as a favor. They were laying an ambush to kill him on the road.