Proverbs 1:10-19
Holman Christian Standard Bible
10 My son, if sinners entice you,(A)
don’t be persuaded.(B)
11 If they say—“Come with us!
Let’s set an ambush(C) and kill someone.[a]
Let’s attack some innocent person(D) just for fun![b]
12 Let’s swallow them alive,(E) like Sheol,
still healthy as they go down to the Pit.(F)
13 We’ll find all kinds of valuable property
and fill our houses with plunder.(G)
14 Throw in your lot with us,
and we’ll all share our money”[c]—
15 my son, don’t travel that road with them(H)
or set foot on their path,(I)
16 because their feet run toward trouble
and they hurry to commit murder.[d](J)
17 It is foolish to spread a net
where any bird can see it,
18 but they set an ambush to kill themselves;[e]
they attack their own lives.
19 Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly;(K)
it takes the lives of those who receive it.[f]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:11 Lit Let’s ambush for blood
- Proverbs 1:11 Lit person for no reason
- Proverbs 1:14 Lit us; one bag will be for all of us
- Proverbs 1:16 Lit to shed blood
- Proverbs 1:18 Lit they ambush for their blood
- Proverbs 1:19 Lit takes the life of its masters
Proverbs 1:10-19
Lexham English Bible
10 My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
11 If they say,
“Come with us!
We shall lie in wait for blood;
we shall ambush the innocent without cause.[a]
12 Like Sheol,[b] we will swallow them alive
and whole, like those who descend to the pit.[c]
13 We shall find all precious wealth,
we shall fill our houses with booty,
14 you shall throw your lot in our midst,
there will be one purse for all of us.”
15 My child, do not walk in their way.[d]
Keep your foot from their paths,
16 for their feet run to evil,
and they hurry to shed blood,
17 for “in vain[e] is the net scattered,
in the sight of any winged bird.”[f]
18 They lie in wait for their own blood.
They ambush their own lives.
19 Thus are the ways of all who are greedy for gain—
it will take the life of its possessors.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:11 Or “wantonly,” or “for nothing”
- Proverbs 1:12 A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld
- Proverbs 1:12 Literally “like the descenders of a pit”
- Proverbs 1:15 Or “on their road”
- Proverbs 1:17 Or “without cause,” or “for nothing”
- Proverbs 1:17 Literally “bird of wing”
Proverbs 16:29
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Proverbs 16:29
Lexham English Bible
29 A person of violence will entice his neighbor
and cause him to walk on a way that is not good.
Proverbs 25:26
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Proverbs 25:26
Lexham English Bible
26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain
is the righteous who gives way before the wicked.
Proverbs 27:3
Holman Christian Standard Bible
3 A stone is heavy and sand, a burden,
but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
Proverbs 27:3
Lexham English Bible
3 Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand,
but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
Proverbs 28:10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
10 The one who leads the upright into an evil way
will fall into his own pit,(A)
but the blameless will inherit what is good.(B)
Proverbs 28:10
Lexham English Bible
10 He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil,
into his pits he will fall.
But as for the blameless, they will inherit good.
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