Proverbs 1:11

Proverbs chapter 1 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.10My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.

v.11This passage

v.12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Psalms 10:8
He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
Proverbs 1:18
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Psalms 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their netina pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.