New King James Version

Proverbs 1:11-19 New King James Version (NKJV)

11. If they say, “Come with us,Let us lie in wait to shed blood;Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

12. Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,And whole, like those who go down to the Pit;

13. We shall find all kinds of precious possessions,We shall fill our houses with spoil;

14. Cast in your lot among us,Let us all have one purse”—

15. My son, do not walk in the way with them,Keep your foot from their path;

16. For their feet run to evil,And they make haste to shed blood.

17. Surely, in vain the net is spreadIn the sight of any bird;

18. But they lie in wait for their own blood,They lurk secretly for their own lives.

19. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;It takes away the life of its owners.