Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
The words of the wicked lead to bloodshed, but the speech of the upright delivers them.
New American Standard Bible
But the
King James Version
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Holman Bible
but the speech of the upright rescues them.
A Conservative Version
The words of the wicked lay in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
American Standard Version
The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Amplified
The [malevolent] words of the wicked lie in wait for [innocent] blood [to slander],
But the mouth of the upright will rescue and protect them.
Bible in Basic English
The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.
Darby Translation
The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Julia Smith Translation
The words of the unjust are the lying in wait of blood: and the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
King James 2000
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The words of the wicked [are] an ambush of blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.
Modern King James verseion
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The talking of the ungodly is how they may lay wait for blood; but the mouth of the righteous will deliver them.
NET Bible
The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.
New Heart English Bible
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
The Emphasized Bible
The words of the lawless, are - of lying in wait for blood, but, the mouth of the upright, shall deliver them.
Webster
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
World English Bible
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
Youngs Literal Translation
The words of the wicked are: 'Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.
Themes
Speech/communication » The mouth of the wicked
Speech/communication » The mouth of the upright
Uprightness » They who walk in, shall » Be delivered by their wisdom
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 12:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
5 The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful. 6 The words of the wicked lead to bloodshed, but the speech of the upright delivers them. 7 After they're overthrown, the wicked won't be found, but the house of the righteous stands firm.
Cross References
Proverbs 14:3
What a fool says brings a rod to his back, but the words of the wise protect them.
Esther 4:7-14
Mordecai told him everything that had happened and the exact amount of money that Haman had said he would pay into the king's treasury in order to destroy the Jewish people.
Esther 7:4-6
Indeed, I and my people have been sold to be annihilated, killed, and destroyed. If we had just been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because the trouble wouldn't have been sufficient to bother the king."
Proverbs 1:11-19
If they say, "Come with us! Let's lie in wait for blood; let's ambush some innocent person for no reason at all.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet rush to evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; ruin, destruction, and violence are in their paths.
Jeremiah 5:26
"Evil men are found among my people. They lie in wait like someone who traps birds. They set a trap, but they do so to catch people.
Micah 7:1-2
Poor me! I feel like those who harvest summer fruit, or like those who pick grapes there are no clusters to eat or any fresh fruit that I want.
Acts 23:12
In the morning, the Jewish leaders formed a conspiracy and took an oath not to eat or drink anything before they had killed Paul.
Acts 23:15
Now then, you and the Council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you on the pretext that you want to look into his case more carefully, but before he arrives we'll be ready to kill him."
Acts 25:3
and asking Festus to have Paul brought to Jerusalem as a favor. They were laying an ambush to kill him on the road.