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Pr 1:11 King James If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Murder and robbery are given as specific illustrations.

lay wait . . . lurk privily--express an effort and hope for successful concealment.

swallow . . . grave--utterly destroy the victim and traces of the crime (Num 16:33; Psa 55:15). Abundant rewards of villainy are promised as the fruits of this easy and safe course.
 
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15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
1 A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
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.
2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: