Proverbs 1:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
  • Ps 7:14-16 : 14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch [which] he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
  • Ps 9:16 : 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 : 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.
  • Prov 5:22-23 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. 23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
  • Prov 9:17-18 : 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.
  • Prov 28:17 : 17 ¶ A man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
  • Matt 27:4-5 : 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]. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 1:19
    83%

    19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  • Prov 1:11-12
    2 verses
    82%

    11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

    12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

  • Prov 1:16-17
    2 verses
    80%

    16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

    17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

  • Jer 5:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

    26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

    27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

  • Ps 10:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

    9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

  • Ps 64:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

    5 They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

    6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.

  • Ps 56:6
    78%

    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • Rom 3:15
    76%

    15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

  • Job 18:10
    75%

    10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

  • Ps 38:12
    75%

    12 ¶ They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • Ps 37:32
    75%

    32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • Job 38:40
    75%

    40 When they couch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait?

  • Mic 7:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2 The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

    3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • Isa 59:7
    74%

    7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.

  • Ps 11:2
    74%

    2 For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Prov 4:16
    74%

    16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

  • Ps 17:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

    12 Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Ps 59:3
    74%

    3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

  • Jer 18:22
    74%

    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Prov 24:2
    73%

    2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Job 24:16
    73%

    16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

  • Prov 24:15
    73%

    15 ¶ Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

  • Jer 9:8
    73%

    8 Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

  • Ps 141:9
    73%

    9 Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

    8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Prov 12:6
    73%

    6 ¶ The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

  • Job 18:8
    72%

    8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

  • Prov 23:28
    72%

    28 She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

  • Ps 94:21
    72%

    21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • Prov 29:10
    72%

    10 ¶ The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

  • Hab 2:9
    72%

    9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • Ps 37:14
    72%

    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of upright conversation.

  • Mic 2:1
    72%

    1 ¶ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Ps 140:2
    72%

    2 Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.

  • Ps 140:5
    72%

    5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

  • Ps 35:20
    72%

    20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.

  • Job 24:14
    72%

    14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

  • Ps 21:11
    71%

    11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].

  • Ps 69:22
    71%

    22 ¶ Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.

  • Ps 9:15
    71%

    15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  • Prov 7:23
    71%

    23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.