Proverbs 1:17-19

[17] For in vain is a net spread
in the sight of any bird;
[18] but these men lie in wait for their own blood,
they set an ambush for their own lives.
[19] Such are the ways of all who get gain by violence;
it takes away the life of its possessors. 

IMAGE: Albert Bierstadt, The Ambush (1876)