The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
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Gill's Exposition
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood,.... Which some understand of perjury and false witness, as Jarchi, whereby the lives of innocent persons are taken away: or it may be interpreted…
Barnes' Notes
Shall deliver them - i. e., The righteous themselves.
Matthew Henry
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;…
Cambridge Bible
to lie in wait So R.V. marg., a lying in wait; but R.V. text, of lying in wait, comp. Pro 1:11.
them This may mean either the righteous themselves, or those for whose blood the wicked lie in wait.
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