Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
New American Standard Bible
They ambush their own lives.
King James Version
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
Holman Bible
they attack their own lives.
International Standard Version
but these people lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush only themselves.
A Conservative Version
and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
American Standard Version
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
Amplified
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].
Darby Translation
And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Julia Smith Translation
And they will lie in wait for their blood; they will hide for their souls.
King James 2000
And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They lie in wait for their [own] blood. They ambush their [own] lives.
Modern King James verseion
And they lie in wait for their own blood; they watch secretly for their own lives.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.
NET Bible
but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
New Heart English Bible
but these lie in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
The Emphasized Bible
Yet, they, for their own blood, lie in wait, They watch in secret for their own life.
Webster
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
World English Bible
but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
Themes
The call of God » Rejection of, leads to » Rejection by God
Covetousness » Leads to » Murder
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 1:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young
17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: 18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. 19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
Cross References
Esther 7:10
So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.
Psalm 7:14-16
That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
Psalm 9:16
The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)
Psalm 55:23
But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
Proverbs 5:22-23
The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 9:17-18
Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
Proverbs 28:17
One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.
Matthew 27:4-5
Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.