Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
but these people lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush only themselves.
New American Standard Bible
They ambush their own lives.
King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
Holman Bible
they attack their own lives.
A Conservative Version
and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
American Standard Version
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
Amplified
But [when these people set a trap for others] they lie in wait for their own blood;
They set an ambush for their own lives [and rush to their destruction].
Bible in Basic English
And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
Darby Translation
And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Julia Smith Translation
And they will lie in wait for their blood; they will hide for their souls.
King James 2000
And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They lie in wait for their [own] blood. They ambush their [own] lives.
Modern King James verseion
And they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch secretly for their own lives.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.
NET Bible
but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
New Heart English Bible
but these lie in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
The Emphasized Bible
Yet, they, for their own blood, lie in wait, They watch in secret for their own life.
Webster
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
World English Bible
but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
Themes
The call of God » Rejection of, leads to » Rejection by God
Covetousness » Leads to » Murder
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 1:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young
17 Look, it is useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds, 18 but these people lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush only themselves. 19 Such is the way of all those who seek illicit gain it takes away the lives of those who possess it.
Cross References
Esther 7:10
The king said, "Hang him on it." So they hanged Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and then the king's anger subsided.
Psalm 7:14-16
But the wicked one travails with evil, he conceives malice and gives birth to lies.
Psalm 9:16
The LORD has made himself known, executing judgment. The wicked are ensnared by what their hands have made. Interlude
Psalm 55:23
But you, God, bring them down to the Pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I put my full confidence in you. To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "A Silent Dove Far Away," when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Proverbs 5:22-23
The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 9:17-18
"Stolen waters are sweet, and food eaten in secret is delicious."
Proverbs 28:17
A guilty man tormented by bloodshed will be a lifelong fugitive; let no one support him.
Matthew 27:4-5
saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood."