Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
In other versions
The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
ASV
The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.
BBE
The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
DBY
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, But the speech of the upright rescues them.
WEB
The words of the wicked `are': `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.
YLT
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
ENG
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
WBT
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
BSB
In context
4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
5The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
7The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
8A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.