Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
5The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
7Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.
Esther 7:4For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.
Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride: but the lips of the wise preserve them.
Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
Acts 23:12And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying, that they would neither eat, nor drink, till they killed Paul.
Acts 25:3Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be brought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in 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 →