6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: …
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6)In the foregoing verse the thoughts of the wicked and righteous were compared; here their words , and those are as the abundance of the heart is. 1. Wicked people speak mischief to their neighbours; and wicked indeed those are whose words are to lie in wait for blood ; their tongues are swords to those that stand in their way, to good men whom they hate and persecute. See an instance, Luke 20:20 ,…
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