If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood - (Proverbs 1:16; Jeremiah 5:26.)
Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause - i:e., though we have not bean provoked or wronged, yet let us assail and kill. Not that they would actually say so, because this would rather be a dissuasive than an inducement; but Solomon, by the Spirit, makes them the mouthpiece of expressing their conduct in its true light. He speaks the language which their own conscience would use respecting their conduct, if they would heed it. Maurer, after Cornelius a Lapide, takes it, 'him that is in rain innocent;' i:e., that will not be saved by his piety and innocence from our attack. The sense of the same Hebrew, and the ironical contrast in Proverbs 1:17 х chinaam (H2600)], favour this. See note there.