Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright will deliver them.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
5The thoughts of the righteous are justice: the best counsels of the wicked are deceit.
7The wicked are suddenly overthrown, and are no more; but the house of the righteous will endure.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1Moreover Achithophel said unto Abshalom, Do let me now select twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night;
Esther 7:4For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain and to be exterminated; and if we had been only sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I would have remained silent; for the adversary regardeth not the damage of the king.
Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of the foolish is a stick [for his] pride; but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
Jeremiah 5:26For there are found among my people wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that layeth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
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 →