Proverbs 1:18 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 1:18

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

KJV

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ASV

And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

WEB

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

YLT

And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

DBT

And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

About this book

Old Testament

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Proverbs — 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.

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Cross-references

20 verses on the floor

Psalms 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.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
Proverbs 28:17
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Proverbs 5:22–23
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Psalms 7:14–16
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

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Voices4

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

A faithful and lively representation of wisdom's reasonings with the children of men, and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to those reasonings,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Men warned ought to escape danger as birds instinctively avoid visibly spread nets. But stupid sinners rush to their own ruin (Ps 9:16), and, greedy of gain, succeed in the very schemes which destroy them (1Ti 6:10), not only failing to catch others, but procuring their own destruction.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Christ himself is Wisdom, is Wisdoms, for in him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and he is the centre of all divine revelation, not only the essential Wisdom, but the eternal Word, by whom God speaks to us and to whom he has committed all judgment; he it is therefore who here both pleads with sinners and passes sentence on them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent . . . not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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The walk8

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