Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Proverbs 12:18 - The Scriptures 2009 Rash speaking is like piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise is 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. |
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
My being is in the midst of lions; I lie among those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword.
Be exalted, O Elohim, above the heavens; Let Your esteem be above all the earth.
See, they belch out with their mouth, Swords are in their lips, For who is listening?
Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, a bitter word,
He who speaks truth declares righteousness, But a false witness, deceit.
A messenger that is wrong falls into evil, But a trustworthy envoy is a healing.
A healing tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it crushes the spirit.
The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, But the heart of fools is not so.
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweet to the being, and healing to the bones.
A man bearing false witness against his neighbour Is like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow.
For they are life to those who find them, And healing to all their flesh.
“And those of the people who have insight shall give understanding to many. And they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plundering, for days.
And in His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His face was as the sun shining in its strength.
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.