Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked [are]: “Lay [in] wait for blood,” || And the mouth of the upright delivers them.
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5The thoughts of the righteous [are] justice, || The counsels of the wicked—deceit.
7Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, || And the house of the righteous stands.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1And Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David tonight,
Esther 7:4for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for menservants and for maidservants we had been sold I had kept silent—but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.”
Proverbs 14:3A rod of pride [is] in the mouth of a fool, || And the lips of the wise preserve them.
Jeremiah 5:26For the wicked have been found among My people. He watches like one who sets snares, || They have set up a trap—they capture men.
Acts 23:12And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, cursed themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they may kill Paul;
Acts 25:3asking favor against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death 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 →