Proverbs 1:11-18 ▼

11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us wantonly ambush the innocent;

12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.

13 We shall find all kinds of costly things; we shall fill our houses with booty.

14 Throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”—

15 my child, do not walk in their way, keep your foot from their paths;

16 for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood.

17 For in vain is the net baited while the bird is looking on;

18 yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!