“The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 12 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.