THEOSISProverbs 1:18Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
וְ֭הֵם לְדָמָ֣ם יֶאֱרֹ֑בוּ יִ֝צְפְּנ֗וּ לְנַפְשֹׁתָֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 9:16I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.
- Esth 7:10So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.
- Matt 27:4Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? Look thou to it.
- Matt 27:5And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed and went and hanged himself with an halter.
- Prov 5:22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
- Prov 5:23He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.
- Prov 28:17A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.
- Ps 55 (54):23