He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
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TSK · Proverbs 1:11
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For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"
but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.