Proverbs 12:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ The words of the wrong are, “Lie in wait for blood,” But the mouth of the straight delivers them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them and the innocent ones [thus endangered].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Common English Bible

⁶ The words of the wicked are a deathtrap, but the speech of those who do right rescues them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The words of the impious lie in wait for blood. The mouth of the just shall free them.

Proverbs 12:6 Cross References

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are right-ruling, The counsels of the wrong are deceit.

Proverbs 14:3

In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, But the lips of the wise guard them.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness, wasting and ruin are in their highways.

Jeremiah 5:26

‘For among My people are found wrong men who lie in wait as one who sets snares. They have set up a trap, they catch men.

Acts 23:12

And when it became day, some of the Yehuḏ

Acts 23:15

“Now, then, you, with the council, inform the commander to have him brought down to you tomorrow, as intending to examine more exactly all about him. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Acts 25:3

asking a favour against him, that he would send him to Yerushalayim – making a plot along the way to kill him.