And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
Ver. 18. And they lay wait.] Their sin will surely find them out. "No doubt this man is a murderer," said those barbarians, Act 28:4 "whom though he had escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live." a "Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth." 2Ki 9:26 Murder ever bleeds fresh in the eye of God; to him many years, yea, that eternity that is past, is but yesterday.
a Nemo noquitiam gerit in pectore, qui non idem Nemesin in tergo.