If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
WEB
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
YLT
If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
DBT
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.