THEOSISProverbs 12:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood: the mouth of the just shall deliver them.
דִּבְרֵ֣י רְשָׁעִ֣ים אֱרָב־דָּ֑ם וּפִ֥י יְ֝שָׁרִ֗ים יַצִּילֵֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 14:3In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride: but the lips of the wise preserve them.
- Jer 5:26For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
- Prov 1:11If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
- Prov 1:19So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
- Isa 59:7Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.
- Esth 7:4For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.
- Esth 7:6And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.
- Esth 4:7And Mardochai told him all that had happened, how Aman had promised to pay money into the king's treasures, to have the Jews destroyed.