Proverbs 1:11
What does Proverbs 1:11 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 1:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
KJV
King James Version · 1611If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Context
Cross references
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.
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