Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Darby Translation
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In Context
5The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
7Overthrow the wicked, and they are no [more]; but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David to-night;
Esther 7:4for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the adversary could not compensate the king's damage.
Proverbs 14:3In the fool's mouth is a rod of pride; but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
Acts 23:12And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.
Acts 25:3asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:6
5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. Note, 1. The word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, and judges them. We mistake if we imagine that thoughts are free. No, they are under the divine cognizance, and therefore under the divine command. 2. We ought to be observers of the thoughts and intents of our own hearts, and to judge of ourselves by them; for they are the first-born of the soul, that have most of its image undisguised. Right… Read the whole commentary →