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

恶人的言论是埋伏流人的血；正直人的口必拯救人。

恶人的言论埋伏流人的血；正直人的口却拯救人。

恶人的言论埋伏流人的血；正直人的口却拯救人。

恶人的言语暗藏杀机，正直人的口拯救生命。

恶人的言语埋伏着，等待要流人的血，正直人的口能拯救人。

恶人的话语，埋伏着要杀人流血；正直人的口，将解救自己。

惡人的言論是埋伏流人的血；正直人的口必拯救人。

惡人的言論埋伏流人的血；正直人的口卻拯救人。

惡人的言論埋伏流人的血；正直人的口卻拯救人。

惡人的言語暗藏殺機，正直人的口拯救生命。

惡人的言語埋伏著，等待要流人的血，正直人的口能拯救人。

惡人的話埋伏着要流人的血；正直人的口能援救人。

惡人的話語，埋伏著要殺人流血；正直人的口，將解救自己。

惡者所言、無非潛伏流血、正人之口、必救其人、

惡者語人以殺戮之事、義者勸人以拯救之道。

邪惡人之出言、乃暗害人命、正直人之議論、乃以拯救人、

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

The words of those who are evil hide and wait to spill people’s blood. But the speech of those who are honest saves them from traps like that.

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.

The words of the wicked are like a murderous ambush, but the words of the godly save lives.

The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

The words of the wicked wait in ambush for blood, But the mouth of the upright will rescue them.

The words of the wicked are,“ Lie in wait for blood,” But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

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

The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

If they say,“ Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse.”My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:“ All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”They told Esther’s words to Mordecai.Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther:“ Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom,“ Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen,“ Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”Esther said,“ An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.