Proverbs 12:18 - Revised Standard Version

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

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There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: But the tongue of the wise is health.

There are those who speak rashly, like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.

Some chatter on like a stabbing sword, but a wise tongue heals.

He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.

There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.