Proverbs 12:6
The talking of the wicked is to lye in waite for blood: but the mouth of the righteous will deliuer them.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
5The thoughtes of the iust are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceitfull.
7God ouerthroweth the wicked, and they are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1Moreouer Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me chuse out now twelue thousand men, and I will vp and follow after Dauid this night,
Esther 7:4For we are solde, I, and my people, to be destroyed, to be slayne and to perish: but if we were solde for seruants, and for handmaides, I woulde haue helde my tongue: although the aduersarie could not recompense the Kings losse.
Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise preserue them.
Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.
Acts 23:12And when the day was come, certaine of the Iewes made an assemblie, and bounde themselues with a curse, saying, that they woulde neither eate nor drinke, till they had killed Paul.
Acts 25:3And desired fauour against him, that hee would send for him to Hierusalem: and they layd waite to kill him by 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 →