Proverbs 1:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

blood. Figure of speech Metalepsis (App-6), "blood" put for bloodshedding, and then bloodshedding put for the one whose blood was shed. See Isaiah 33:15.

the innocent. an innocent one (singular)

without cause. Compare John 15:25.

Proverbs 1:11

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