Proverbs 1:11
If they say, oCome with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk *privily for the innocent without cause:
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
o:
Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Psalms 10:8-10:10 8. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. 9. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 10. He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms 54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
Psalms 56:5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Psalms 64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
*:
privily-secretly.
we are numerous, and strong, and sociable.
to shed blood. He expresseth not their words, which would rather affright than inveigle a young novice; but the true nature and consequence of the action, and what lies at the bottom of their specious pretences.
so we shall neither be prevented before, nor discovered and punished afterward.
harmless travellers, who are more careless and secure, and unprovided for opposition, than such villains as themselves.
though they have not provoked us, nor deserved this usage from us. This Solomon adds to discover their malignity and baseness, and so deter the young man from association with them.