Proverbs 12:6
“The words of the wicked are to lie in waite for blood: but the mouth of the vpright shall deliuer them.”
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Proverbs 12:6 Context
4A vertuous woman is a crowne to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed, is as rottennesse 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 waite for blood: but the mouth of the vpright shall deliuer them. 7The wicked are ouerthrowen, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. 8A man shall be commended according to his wisedome: but hee that is of a peruerse heart, shall be despised.
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Other Translations for Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
- King James Version
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
- American Standard Version (1901)
The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.
- Basic English Bible
The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
- Darby Bible
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
- Webster's Bible
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
- World English Bible
The words of the wicked [are]: `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.
- Youngs Literal Bible
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Proverbs 12:6
12:6 Lie in wait - Are designed to entrap others, and to destroy them. Deliver them - From those that lie in wait for them.