Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
New American Standard Bible
Let us
Let us
King James Version
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Holman Bible
Let’s set an ambush
Let’s attack some innocent person
International Standard Version
If they say, "Come with us! Let's lie in wait for blood; let's ambush some innocent person for no reason at all.
American Standard Version
If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
Amplified
If they say, “Come with us;
Let us lie in wait to shed blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;
Bible in Basic English
If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
Darby Translation
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Julia Smith Translation
If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;
King James 2000
If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:
Lexham Expanded Bible
If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.
Modern King James verseion
If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, we will watch secretly for the innocent without cause;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:
NET Bible
If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
New Heart English Bible
If they say, "Come with us, Let's lie in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
The Emphasized Bible
If they say - Come with us, - Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;
Webster
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
World English Bible
If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Youngs Literal Translation
If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Exhortations to shun all inducements to
Birds » Illustrative » (snaring,) of designs of the wicked
Character » Of the wicked » Enticing to evil
Character of the wicked » Enticing to evil
Murder » The wicked » Encourage others to commit
Profit » Those that profit from violence
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 1:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young
10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 1:18
and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked lay in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
Psalm 10:8-10
He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man.
Psalm 17:12
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.
Psalm 56:6
They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps, even as they have waited for my soul.
Psalm 64:5-6
They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They converse of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?
Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 30:14
There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw teeth, knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
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 of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that hi
Jeremiah 18:18-20
Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi
Micah 7:2
The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then the chief priests, and the scholars, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
John 15:25
But, that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.
Acts 23:15
Now therefore ye with the council report to the chief captain that tomorrow he may bring him down to you, as though going to inquire more accurately the things about him. And we, before he comes near, are prepared to kill him.
Acts 25:3
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to kill him on the way.