Proverbs Chapter 1 verse 18 Holy Bible
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
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And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
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And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
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And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
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And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - And they lay wait for their own blood, etc. The third reason or argument why the teacher's warning should be followed, drawn from the destruction which overtakes the sinners themselves. "Lay wait," and "lurk privily," as in ver. 11, from which this verse is evidently borrowed. They propose, as they say, to lay wait for the blood of others; but it is, says the teacher, for their own blood. לְדָמָם (l'dhammam), contra sanguinem suum; they lurk privily. as they say, for the innocent, but in reality it is for their own lives; לְנַפְשֹׁתָם (l'naph'shotham); contra animus suas (Vulgate); or, as the LXX. puts it, Αὐτοὶ γὰρ οἱ φόνον μετέχοντες θησαυρίζουσιν ἑαυτοῖς κατὰ, "For they who take part in murder treasure up evils for themselves;" that is, they am bringing a heavier and surer destruction upon themselves than they can ever inflict upon others (Wardlaw). The LXX. adds, at the close of the verse, Ἡ δὲ καταστροφὴ ἀνδρῶν παρανόμων κακή, "And the overthrowing or destruction of transgressors is wrest, or evil." The Arabic Version has a similar addition.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) And they lay wait.--Yet they cannot see that in truth they are laying wait, not for the innocent, but for themselves, as God will deliver him, and bring the mischief they designed for him upon their own head.