you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
Proverbs 12:18 - Revised Standard Version There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: But the tongue of the wise is health. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition There are those who speak rashly, like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. American Standard Version (1901) There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health. Common English Bible Some chatter on like a stabbing sword, but a wise tongue heals. Catholic Public Domain Version He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health. |
you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth!
There they are, bellowing with their mouths, and snarling with their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
He who speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.
A bad messenger plunges men into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.
For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.
And those among the people who are wise shall make many understand, though they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder, for some days.
in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.
through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.