Proverbs 12:6 · KJV
“The words of the wicked {are} to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.”
— Proverbs 12:6
The thoughts of the righteous {are} right: {but} the counsels of the wicked {are} deceit.
The wicked are overthrown, and {are} not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Proverbs 12 — Context
A 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. {of a...: Heb. perverse of heart}
Cross References
Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish {is} a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked {men}: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. {they lay...: or, they pry as fowlers lie in wait}
Proverbs 1:11-19
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts {are} thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction {are} in their paths. {destruction: Heb. breaking}
2 Samuel 17:1-4
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Acts 23:12
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. {under a curse: or, with an oath of execration}
Esther 4:7-14
And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
Esther 7:4-6
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. {to be destroyed...: Heb. that they should destroy, and kill, and cause to perish}