Proverbs 12:6

What wicked people say is like a trap [MET] that kills [MTY] people who pass by, but what righteous people say [MTY] rescues those whom wicked people threaten to harm.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

In Context

5What righteous people want to do is to treat people fairly; what wicked people want to do is to deceive people.

7Wicked people will die before they become old and we will see them no more, but righteous people will live for many years and have many descendants.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 17:1Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Allow me to choose 12,000 men, and I will leave with them tonight to pursue David.

Esther 7:4It is as though I and my people are cattle that have been sold to be slaughtered. It is as though we have been sold to people who want to completely destroy us. If we had only been sold to people to become their male and female slaves, I would not say anything, because that would have been a matter too small to bother you, the king.”

Proverbs 14:3Foolish people will be punished [MTY] for what they say, but wise people will be protected by what they say [MTY].

Jeremiah 5:26Among my people are wicked people who hide along the roads to ambush/attack people like [SIM] men who hunt birds ◄put out nets/set traps► to catch them.

Acts 23:12The next morning some of the Jews [MTY] who hated Paul met secretly and talked about how they could kill him. They promised themselves that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed him. They asked God to curse them if they did not do what they promised.

Acts 25:3They urgently asked Festus to do something for them. They asked him to command soldiers to bring Paul to Jerusalem, so that Festus could put him on trial there. But they were planning that some of them would hide near the road and wait for Paul and kill him when he was traveling to Jerusalem.

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 →

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