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Proverbs 12:6

Words and speechJustice

4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

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

7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

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BSB
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
KJV
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
WEB
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
ASV
The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
DARBY
The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
BLB
The words of the wicked ones lie in wait [for] blood, and the mouth of the upright ones delivers them.
ÅB
De ugudelige taler alltid om å lure etter blod, men de oppriktiges munn frelser dem.
OTB
De ugudeliges ord ligger i bakhold for blod, men de oppriktiges tale redder dem.
B1930
De ugudelige taler alltid om å lure efter blod, men de opriktiges munn frelser dem.

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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:

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  • 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.

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  • 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:

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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