Proverbs 1:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Proverbs 1:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 9:16
The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Proverbs 5:22-23
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. …
Proverbs 28:17
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Psalms 55:23
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.

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Commentary

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 concern…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

10-19. A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, “open the way.” consent ... not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.