Proverbs 1:11

World English Bible (2000)

If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

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  • Prov 1:18 : 18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
  • Prov 12:6 : 6 The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
  • Jer 18:18-20 : 18 Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. 19 Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
  • John 15:25 : 25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
  • Acts 23:15 : 15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net. 10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
  • Ps 56:6 : 6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
  • Ps 64:5-6 : 5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?" 6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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  • Prov 1:12-19
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    12let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

    13We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.

    14You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."

    15My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

    16for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

    17For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

    18but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

    19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

  • Prov 1:10
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    10My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

  • Ps 94:21
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    21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

    5They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

  • Ps 10:8-9
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    8He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

    9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

  • Prov 4:15-17
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    15Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

    16For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

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    6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • Prov 16:29
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    29A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

    8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

  • Ps 28:3
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    3Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Prov 29:10
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    10The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

  • Gen 37:20
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    20Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

  • Prov 12:6
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    6The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

  • Prov 28:17
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    17A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

  • Mic 7:2-3
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    2The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

    3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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    11There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

  • Ps 64:2
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    2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

  • Josh 2:19
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    19It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

  • Job 18:10
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    10A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • Deut 19:11
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    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Jer 18:18
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    18Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

  • Isa 29:21
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    21who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

  • Hos 6:9
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    9As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

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    14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

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    27Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.