Proverbs 1:18
Modern Translations
New International Version
These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves!

New Living Translation
But these people set an ambush for themselves; they are trying to get themselves killed.

English Standard Version
but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.

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

New American Standard Bible
But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.

NASB 1995
But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.

NASB 1977
But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.

Amplified Bible
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].

Christian Standard Bible
but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.

Contemporary English Version
They gang up to murder someone, but they are the victims.

Good News Translation
but people like that are setting a trap for themselves, a trap in which they will die.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But these people set an ambush for their own murder. They go into hiding only to lose their lives.

International Standard Version
but these people lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush only themselves.

NET Bible
but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

New King James Version
But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives.

King James 2000 Bible
And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

New Heart English Bible
but these lie in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

World English Bible
but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

American King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.

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

A Faithful Version
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch secretly for their own lives.

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

English Revised Version
And these lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their own lives.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
So these lay wayte for the blood of them, and lye priuily for their liues.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Yee they the selues laye wayte one for anothers bloude, and one of the wolde slaye another.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And they lay wait for their own blood, "" They watch secretly for their own lives.

Young's Literal Translation
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

Smith's Literal Translation
And they will lie in wait for their blood; they will hide for their souls.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Likewise, they lie in ambush against their own blood, and they undertake deceits against their own souls.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they lay wait for blood and hide themselves.

Lamsa Bible
And they lie in wait, they hide themselves to shed blood.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And these lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk for their own lives.

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
















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