Proverbs 1:18

“Their own blood - The destruction which they design to others, fall upon themselves. Proverbs 1:19”

“Pro 5:22, Pro 5:23, Pro 9:17, Pro 9:18, Pro 28:17; Est 7:10; Psa 7:14-16, Psa 9:16, Psa 55:23; Mat 27:4, Mat 27:5 Proverbs 1:19”

“The causal conj. כּי (for) in Pro 1:16 and Pro 1:17 are coordinated; and there now follows, introduced by the conj. ו ("and"), a third reason for the warning: And they lie in wait for their own blood, They lay snares for their own lives. The warning of Pro 1:16 is founded on the immorality of the conduct of the enticer; that of Pro 1:17 on the audaciousness of the seduction as such, and now on the self-destruction which the robber and murderer bring upon themselves: they wish to murder others, but, as the result shows, they only murder themselves. The expression is shaped after Pro 1:11, as if it were: They lay snares, as they themselves say, for the blood of others; but it is in reality for…”