Bible verse
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
Proverbs 1:18 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 1.
14 Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—
15 my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
16 For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
18 But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
19 Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
20 Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
21 in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
KJV
And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
ASV
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
ERV
And these lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their own lives.
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