Proverbs 25:18 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁸ A man bearing false witness against his neighbour Is like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a heavy sledgehammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ People who testify falsely against their neighbors are like a club, sword, and sharpened arrow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ A man who speaks false testimony against his neighbor is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 25:18 Cross References

Psalm 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like a snake; The poison of cobras is under their lips. Selah.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smoother than curds, Yet in his heart is fighting; His words were softer than oil, But they are drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

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.

Exodus 20:16

“You do not bear false witness against your neighbour.

Proverbs 12:18

Rash speaking is like piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise is healing.

Proverbs 24:28

Do not witness against your neighbour without cause, And do not deceive with your lips.

Proverbs 25:17

Make your foot rare in your neighbour’s house, Lest he gets enough of you and hate you.

Jeremiah 9:3

“And they bend their tongue like a bow. Falsehood, and not truth, prevails on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they have not known Me,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:8

“Their tongue is a slaying arrow. It speaks deceit – speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he sets his ambush.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by GĕHinnom.