Proverbs 1:11 {12}
Good News Translation
Suppose they say, "Come on; let's find someone to kill! Let's attack some innocent people for the fun of it!

New Revised Standard Version
If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us wantonly ambush the innocent;

Contemporary English Version
when they say, "Come on! Let's gang up and kill somebody, just for the fun of it!

New American Bible
do not go if they say, “Come along with us! Let us lie in wait for blood, unprovoked, let us trap the innocent;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

let us lay

Proverbs 1:16 But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

Proverbs 12:6 Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm.

Proverbs 30:14 A generation that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.

Psalm 56:6 They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,

Psalm 64:5,6 They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them? . . .

Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.

Micah 7:2 The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.

Acts 23:15 Now therefore do you with the council signify to the tribune, that he bring him forth to you, as if you meant to know something more certain touching him. And we, before he come near, are ready to kill him.

Acts 25:3 Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be brought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the way.

let us lurk

Proverbs 1:18 So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Psalm 10:8-10 He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent. . . .

Psalm 17:12 They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.

Psalm 35:7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.

Jeremiah 11:19 And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.

Jeremiah 18:18-20 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words. . . .

Matthew 26:3,4 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: . . .

John 15:25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

Context
The Enticement of Sin
10If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause: 11Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.12We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.…
Cross References
Psalm 10:8
He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent.

Proverbs 1:18
So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Proverbs 12:6
Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm.

Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.

Proverbs 1:10
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