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Proverbs Chapter 12 verse 6 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
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BBE Proverbs 12:6

The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.
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DARBY Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
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KJV Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
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WBT Proverbs 12:6

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WEB Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, But the speech of the upright rescues them.
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YLT Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked `are': `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - The words of the wicked are to lie in wait - a lying in wait - for blood (see Proverbs 1:11). The wicked, by their lies, slanders, false accusations, etc., endanger men's lives, as Jezebel compassed Naboth's death by false witness (1 Kings 21:13). The mouth of the upright shall deliver them; i.e. the innocent whose blood the wicked seek. The good plead the cause of the oppressed, using their eloquence in their favour, as in the Apocryphal Story of Susannah, Daniel saved the accused woman from the slanders of the elders.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood--i.e., are calculated for this end.The mouth of the upright shall deliver them--i.e., those for whom the wicked lie in wait.