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Proverbs 1:18
So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
Proverbs 1:18 · Geneva 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 sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.
16 For their feete runne to euill, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:
18 So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
19 Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.
21 She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,
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