Verse (Click for Chapter) 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 Standard Bible But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives. 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. 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. Legacy Standard Bible 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. American Standard Version And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And they lay wait for blood and hide themselves. Brenton Septuagint Translation For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; and the overthrow of transgressors is evil. Contemporary English Version They gang up to murder someone, but they are the victims. Douay-Rheims Bible And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls. English Revised Version And these lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their own lives. GOD'S WORD® Translation But these people set an ambush for their own murder. They go into hiding only to lose their lives. Good News Translation but people like that are setting a trap for themselves, a trap in which they will die. International Standard Version but these people lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush only themselves. JPS Tanakh 1917 And these lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk for their own lives. Literal Standard Version And they lay wait for their own blood, | They watch secretly for their own lives. Majority Standard Bible But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives. New American Bible They lie in wait for their own blood, they set a trap for their own lives. NET Bible but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives! New Revised Standard Version yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives! New Heart English Bible but these lie in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. Webster's Bible Translation And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. World English Bible but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives. Young's Literal Translation And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Enticement of Sin…17How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it! 18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives. 19Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.… Cross References Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. Proverbs 1:11 If they say, "Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, Proverbs 1:17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it! Proverbs 11:19 Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death. Treasury of Scripture And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives. Proverbs 5:22,23 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins… Proverbs 9:17,18 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant… Proverbs 28:17 A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him. Jump to Previous Ambush Blood Destruction Lay Making Privily Ready Secretly Themselves Wait Waiting Watch WaylayJump to Next Ambush Blood Destruction Lay Making Privily Ready Secretly Themselves Wait Waiting Watch WaylayProverbs 1 1. The use of the proverbs7. An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word 10. to avoid the enticing of sinners 20. Wisdom complains of her contempt 24. She threatens her contemners (18) And they lay wait.--Yet they cannot see that in truth they are laying wait, not for the innocent, but for themselves, as God will deliver him, and bring the mischief they designed for him upon their own head.Verse 18. - And they lay wait for their own blood, etc. The third reason or argument why the teacher's warning should be followed, drawn from the destruction which overtakes the sinners themselves. "Lay wait," and "lurk privily," as in ver. 11, from which this verse is evidently borrowed. They propose, as they say, to lay wait for the blood of others; but it is, says the teacher, for their own blood. לְדָמָם (l'dhammam), contra sanguinem suum; they lurk privily. as they say, for the innocent, but in reality it is for their own lives; לְנַפְשֹׁתָם (l'naph'shotham); contra animus suas (Vulgate); or, as the LXX. puts it, Αὐτοὶ γὰρ οἱ φόνον μετέχοντες θησαυρίζουσιν ἑαυτοῖς κατὰ, "For they who take part in murder treasure up evils for themselves;" that is, they am bringing a heavier and surer destruction upon themselves than they can ever inflict upon others (Wardlaw). The LXX. adds, at the close of the verse, Ἡ δὲ καταστροφὴ ἀνδρῶν παρανόμων κακή, "And the overthrowing or destruction of transgressors is wrest, or evil." The Arabic Version has a similar addition. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew But theyוְ֭הֵם (wə·hêm) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They lie in wait יֶאֱרֹ֑בוּ (ye·’ĕ·rō·ḇū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 693: To lie in wait for their [own] blood; לְדָמָ֣ם (lə·ḏā·mām) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed they ambush יִ֝צְפְּנ֗וּ (yiṣ·pə·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 6845: To hide, to hoard, reserve, to deny, to protect, to lurk their [own] lives. לְנַפְשֹׁתָֽם׃ (lə·nap̄·šō·ṯām) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion Links Proverbs 1:18 NIVProverbs 1:18 NLT Proverbs 1:18 ESV Proverbs 1:18 NASB Proverbs 1:18 KJV Proverbs 1:18 BibleApps.com Proverbs 1:18 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 1:18 Chinese Bible Proverbs 1:18 French Bible Proverbs 1:18 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 1:18 But these lay wait for their own (Prov. 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