Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Proverbs 12:18 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!
Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, *For,* they say, *who hears us?*
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
Those who are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, [many] days.
He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.