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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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood,.... Which some understand of perjury and false witness, as Jarchi,…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Shall deliver them - i. e., The righteous themselves.
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714
In the foregoing verse the thoughts of the wicked and righteous were compared; here their words, and those are as the…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
to lie in wait So R.V. marg., a lying in wait; but R.V. text, of lying in wait, comp. Pro 1:11.
them This may mean…
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