Proverbs 1:18

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk ivily 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 ivily 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 sead 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 ste, 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 ste: 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 uight 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 ey, 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 uight: 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.