Proverbs 12:6 Cross References - YLT

⁶ The words of the wicked are : `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.

¹ And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, `Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night, ² and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who are with him, and I have smitten the king by himself, ³ and I bring back all the people unto thee—as the turning back of the whole is the man whom thou art seeking—all the people are peace. ⁴ And the thing is right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

⁷ and Mordecai declareth to him all that hath met him, and the explanation of the money that Haman said to weigh to the treasuries of the king for the Jews, to destroy them, ⁸ and the copy of the writing of the law that had been given in Shushan to destroy them he hath given to him, to shew Esther, and to declare it to her, and to lay a charge on her to go in unto the king, to make supplication to him, and to seek from before him, for her people. ⁹ And Hatach cometh in and declareth to Esther the words of Mordecai, ¹⁰ and Esther speaketh to Hatach, and chargeth him for Mordecai: ¹¹ `All servants of the king, and people of the provinces of the king, do know that any man and woman, who cometh in unto the king, unto the inner court, who is not called—one law of his is to put them to death, apart from him to whom the king holdeth out the golden sceptre, then he hath lived; and I—I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.' <sup>12</sup> And they declare to Mordecai the words of Esther, <sup>13</sup> and Mordecai speaketh to send back unto Esther: `Do not think in thy soul to be delivered in the house of the king, more than all the Jews, ¹⁴ but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?'

⁴ for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent—but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.' ⁵ And the king Ahasuerus saith, yea, he saith to Esther the queen, `Who is he—this one? and where is this one? —he whose heart hath filled him to do so?' <sup>6</sup> And Esther saith, `The man—adversary and enemy—is this wicked Haman;' and Haman hath been afraid at the presence of the king and of the queen.

¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, ¹² We swallow them as Sheol—alive, And whole—as those going down to the pit, ¹³ Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil, ¹⁴ Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is—to all of us.' ¹⁵ My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, ¹⁶ For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. ¹⁸ And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

³ In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.

⁷ Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction are in their highways.

²⁶ For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap—men they capture.

¹ My woe is to me, for I have been As gatherings of summer-fruit, As gleanings of harvest, There is no cluster to eat, The first-ripe fruit desired hath my soul. ² Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men—there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.

¹² And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;

¹⁵ now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'

³ asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.