Proverbs 1:18 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

English ASV

And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

English Amplified

But [when these men set a trap for others] they are lying in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

But [when these men set a trap for others] they are lying in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

English EASY 2024

These wicked men hide to attack someone. They are ready to kill someone, but they destroy their own lives!

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

But evil people cannot see the trap they set for themselves.

but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

but people like that are setting a trap for themselves, a trap in which they will die.

English God's Word - GW 1995

But these people set an ambush for their own murder. They go into hiding only to lose their lives.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.

English KJV 1611

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

English LSB

But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

but they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

These men lie in wait for their own blood, they set a trap for their own lives.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Those who hide and wait will spill their own blood. They will be caught in their own trap.

English NIV

These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

But not these people! They set an ambush for themselves; they booby-trap their own lives!

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

yet they lie in wait-- to kill themselves! and set an ambush-- for their own lives!

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

They’ll resort to murder to steal their victim’s assets, but eventually it will be their own lives that are ambushed.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

but not these men; they trap themselves! They lay a booby trap for their own lives.

English Tyndale 1537

Yea they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.

Proverbs 1:18 — Compare Translations