Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,
But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

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

The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush,
but the speech of the upright rescues them.

International Standard Version

The words of the wicked lead to bloodshed, but the speech of the upright delivers 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The words
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

of the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

are to lie in wait
ארב 
'arab 
Usage: 42

דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

but the mouth
פּה 
Peh 
Usage: 497

נצל 
Natsal 
Usage: 213

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

5 The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit. 6 The words of the wicked are: 'Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them. 7 Overthrow the wicked, and they are not, And the house of the righteous standeth.



Cross References

Proverbs 14:3

In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.

2 Samuel 17:1-4

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, 'Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night,

Esther 4:7-14

and Mordecai declareth to him all that hath met him, and the explanation of the money that Haman said to weigh to the treasuries of the king for the Jews, to destroy them,

Esther 7:4-6

for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent -- but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.'

Proverbs 1:11-19

If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction are in their highways.

Jeremiah 5:26

For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

Micah 7:1-2

My woe is to me, for I have been As gatherings of summer-fruit, As gleanings of harvest, There is no cluster to eat, The first-ripe fruit desired hath my soul.

Acts 23:12

And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;

Acts 23:15

now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'

Acts 25:3

asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.

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