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Proverbs 12:6 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 12 · verse 6
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.Proverbs 12:6 · King James Version
Proverbs 12:6 in context
4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
5The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
7The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
8A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- uprightyâshârstraightH3477 →
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- wordsdâbâra wordH1697 →
- blooddâmblood of man or an animalH1818 →
- mouthpehthe mouth , whether literal or figurativeH6310 →
- waitʼârabto lurkH693 →
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In the foregoing verse the thoughts of the wicked and righteous were compared; here their words, and those are as the abundance of the heart is. 1. Wicked people speak mischief to their neighbours; and wicked indeed those are whose words are to lie in wait for blood;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary