
Text -- Proverbs 1:18 (NET)




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Wesley -> Pro 1:18
The destruction which they design to others, fall upon themselves.
JFB: Pro 1:17-19 - -- Men warned ought to escape danger as birds instinctively avoid visibly spread nets. But stupid sinners rush to their own ruin (Psa 9:16), and, greedy ...
Men warned ought to escape danger as birds instinctively avoid visibly spread nets. But stupid sinners rush to their own ruin (Psa 9:16), and, greedy of gain, succeed in the very schemes which destroy them (1Ti 6:10), not only failing to catch others, but procuring their own destruction.|| 16421||1||14||0||Some interpreters regard this address as the language of the Son of God under the name of Wisdom (compare Luk 11:49). Others think that wisdom, as the divine attribute specially employed in acts of counsel and admonition, is here personified, and represents God. In either case the address is a most solemn and divine admonition, whose matter and spirit are eminently evangelical and impressive (see on Pro 8:1).

JFB: Pro 1:17-19 - -- Literally, "Wisdoms," the plural used either because of the unusual sense, or as indicative of the great excellency of wisdom (compare Pro 9:1).
Literally, "Wisdoms," the plural used either because of the unusual sense, or as indicative of the great excellency of wisdom (compare Pro 9:1).
Clarke -> Pro 1:18
Clarke: Pro 1:18 - -- They lay wait for their own blood - I believe it is the innocent who are spoken of here, for whose blood and lives these lay wait and lurk privily; ...
They lay wait for their own blood - I believe it is the innocent who are spoken of here, for whose blood and lives these lay wait and lurk privily; certainly not their own, by any mode of construction.
TSK -> Pro 1:18

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Poole -> Pro 1:18
Poole: Pro 1:18 - -- And or but , or yet , or so ; for all these ways this particle is used; which is more fully expressed in the next verse.
They lay wait for their ...
And or but , or yet , or so ; for all these ways this particle is used; which is more fully expressed in the next verse.
They lay wait for their own blood the destruction which they design to others falls upon themselves. Their blood answers to their feet, Pro 1:16 , and belongs to the same persons.
Gill -> Pro 1:18
Gill: Pro 1:18 - -- And they lay wait for their own blood,.... While they lie in wait for the blood of others, they lie in wait for their own; and when they shed the blo...
And they lay wait for their own blood,.... While they lie in wait for the blood of others, they lie in wait for their own; and when they shed the blood of innocent persons, it in the issue comes upon their own heads, and is the cause of their own blood being shed; vengeance pursues them, and justice will not suffer them to live;
they lurk privily for their own lives: while they are lurking in secret places to take away, the lives of others, they are laying snares for their own souls; and the consequence of it will be, that they will be brought to a shameful and untimely end here, or, however, to everlasting ruin and destruction hereafter.

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NET Notes: Pro 1:18 Heb “their own souls.” The term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “soul”) is used as a metonymy (= soul) of ...
Geneva Bible -> Pro 1:18
Geneva Bible: Pro 1:18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for ( o ) their [own] lives.
( o ) He shows that there is no reason to move these wicked t...

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TSK Synopsis -> Pro 1:1-33
TSK Synopsis: Pro 1:1-33 - --1 The use of the proverbs.7 An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word;10 to avoid the enticings of sinners.20 Wisdom complains of her contempt....
Maclaren -> Pro 1:1-19
Maclaren: Pro 1:1-19 - --A Young Man's Best Counsellor
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2. To know wisdom and instruction: to perceive the words of u...
MHCC -> Pro 1:10-19
MHCC: Pro 1:10-19 - --Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer fo...
Matthew Henry -> Pro 1:10-19
Matthew Henry: Pro 1:10-19 - -- Here Solomon gives another general rule to young people, in order to their finding out, and keeping in, the paths of wisdom, and that is to take hee...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Pro 1:18
Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 1:18 - --
The causal conj. כּי (for) in Pro 1:16 and Pro 1:17 are coordinated; and there now follows, introduced by the conj. ו ("and"), a third reason ...
Constable: Pro 1:1--9:18 - --I. DISCOURSES ON WISDOM chs. 1--9
Verse one introduces both the book as a whole and chapters 1-9 in particular. ...

Constable: Pro 1:8--8:1 - --B. Instruction for Young People 1:8-7:27
The two ways (paths) introduced in 1:7 stretch out before the r...
