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Proverbs 1:18
And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 1:18 · Darby Bible
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Proverbs 1:18 in other translations
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
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In context
15 — my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
16 for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
18 And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
19 So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
20 Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
21 she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
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