Proverbs 12:18

Young's Literal Translation 1898

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

Cross References

Psalm 52:2

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalm 57:4

My soul [is] in the midst of lions, I lie down [among] flames — sons of men, Their teeth [are] a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 57:5

Be Thou exalted above the heavens, O God, Above all the earth Thine honour.

Psalm 59:7

Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords [are] in their lips, for ‘Who heareth?’

Psalm 64:3

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow — a bitter word.

Proverbs 12:17

Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness — deceit.

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falleth into evil, And a faithful ambassador is healing.

Proverbs 15:4

A healed tongue [is] a tree of life, And perverseness in it — a breach in the spirit.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools [is] not right.

Proverbs 16:24

Sayings of pleasantness [are] a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

Proverbs 25:18

A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, [Is] the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.

Proverbs 4:22

For life they [are] to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.

Daniel 11:33

And the teachers of the people give understanding to many; and they have stumbled by sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil — days.

Revelation 1:16

and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance [is] as the sun shining in its might.

Revelation 22:2

in the midst of its broad place, and of the river on this side and on that, [is] a tree of life, yielding twelve fruits, in each several month rendering its fruits, and the leaves of the tree [are] for the service of the nations;