Proverbs 1:18
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
KJV
Ipsi quoque contra sanguinem suum insidiantur, et moliuntur fraudes contra animas suas.
Vulgate
αὐτοὶ γὰρ οἱ φόνου μετέχοντες θησαυρίζουσιν ἑαυτοῖς κακά, ἡ δὲ καταστροφὴ ἀνδρῶν παρανόμων κακή.
LXX
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
ASV
וְ֭/הֵם לְ/דָמָ֣/ם יֶאֱרֹ֑בוּ יִ֝צְפְּנ֗וּ לְ/נַפְשֹׁתָֽ/ם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֹרֵ֖ב
'rb
verb · 41×
הֵ֖מָּה
hmh
pronoun · 560×
וֹ
v
noun · 356×
י
y
noun · 752×
צָפַ֣נְתָּ
tspnt
verb · 33×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Esth 7:10 — So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
- Exod 20:13 — Thou shalt not kill.
- Matt 27:4 — Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
- Prov 1:11 — If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
- Prov 5:22 — His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
- Prov 5:22 — His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
- Prov 11:18 — The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
- Prov 28:17 — A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
- Ps 7:14 — Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
- Ps 9:16 — The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
- Ps 55:23 — But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.