“They themselves also lie in wait for their own blood, etc. For their own blood, that they may be punished with temporal death; but against their souls, he says, that they may also be condemned by the eternal perdition of their souls. This applies to all who lie in wait for blood and think they should live by fraud, ye…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs
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18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
— Proverbs 1:18 —
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: