Proverbs 1:11

⁹ For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

¹² let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

¹³ We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
KJV: If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
WEB: If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
ASV: If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
DARBY: If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
BLB: If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide for the innocent one without cause;

ÅB: Når de sier: Kom med oss! Vi vil lure etter blod, sette feller for de uskyldige uten grunn;
OTB: Hvis de sier: “Bli med oss,
la oss vente i hemmelighet på blod,
la oss overfalle den uskyldige uten grunn;
B1930: Når de sier: Kom med oss! Vi vil lure efter blod, sette feller for de uskyldige uten grunn;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Proverbs 1:18
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
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Jeremiah 5:26
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
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Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
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Jeremiah 18:18–20
Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
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Acts 25:3
to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
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Jeremiah 11:19
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
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Matthew 26:3–4
At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
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Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
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