Proverbs 1:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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, Proverbs 1:16, and belongs to the same persons.

Proverbs 1:18

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