Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 1:11

11. If they say, come with us , let us lay wait for blood , let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause :

We are numerous, and strong, and sociable.

To shed Blood. He expresseth not their words, which would rather affright than inveigle a young novice, but the true nature and consequence of the Action, and what lies at the bottom of their specious pretences.

So we shall neither be prevented before, nor discovered and punished afterward.

Harmless Travellers, who are more careless and secure, and unprovided for opposition, than such Villains as themselves.

Though they have not provoked us, nor deserved this usage from us.

h This Solomon adds to discover their malignity and baseness, and so deter the young Man from association with them.