Proverbs 12:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Are to lie in wait for blood; are designed and ordered to entrap or deceive others, and to destroy them. Shall deliver them, to wit, from those that lie in wait for them; which it doth, either,

1. By prayer to God for their deliverance; or,

2. By pacifying the wicked with soft and gentle answers, or by diverting them from their evil course by their good counsels and admonitions; or,

3. By pleading their righteous cause in a judicial or other way.

Proverbs 12:6

6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.