11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
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For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
Then said they, 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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-19)Here Solomon gives another general rule to young people, in order to their finding out, and keeping in, the paths of wisdom, and that is to take heed of the snare of bad company. David’s psalms begin with this caution, and so do Solomon’s proverbs; for nothing is more destructive, both to a lively devotion and to a regular conversation (Prov. 1:10): “ My son , whom I love, and have a tender concer…
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