Proverbs 1:11

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide for the innocent one without cause;

Latin

Si dixerint: Veni nobiscum, insidiemur sanguini; abscondamus tendiculas contra insontem frustra;

Interlinear

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Proverbs 1:10–19

The 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.

Proverbs 1:8–19

In the book of Proverbs, there are two paths (Proverbs 1:15):

A wise and just path
A foolish and evil path

The parents represent the wise path and encourage their child to follow it.

Related verses

Proverbs 1:18
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
Acts 25:3
…to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
Jeremiah 18:18–20
Then 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 words.”
Jeremiah 11:19
For 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 no more.”
Proverbs 30:14
…there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
Matthew 26:3–4
At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
Psalm 64:5–6
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
John 15:25
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
Micah 7:2
The 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.
Psalm 56:6
They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

Glossary

Proverbs, Book of

Topics

Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God: Exhortations to Shun all Inducements To Birds: (Snaring) Designs of the Wicked Character of the Wicked: Enticing to Evil Fellowship with the Wicked Forbidden Homicide: Felonious, or Murder Murder: The Wicked: Encourage Others to Commit Robbers: General Scriptures Concerning Sin: The Wicked: Tempt Others To Temptation: General Scriptures Concerning Young Men: General Scriptures Concerning

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