Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall perish.

New American Standard Bible

A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who tells lies will perish.

King James Version

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Holman Bible

A false witness will not go unpunished,
and one who utters lies perishes.

International Standard Version

A witness to lies will not go unpunished; the teller of falsehoods will perish.

A Conservative Version

A FALSE witness shall not be unpunished, and he who utters lies shall perish.

American Standard Version

A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall perish.

Amplified


A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who breathes lies will perish.

Bible in Basic English

A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.

Darby Translation

A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall perish.

King James 2000

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will perish.

Modern King James verseion

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and one speaking lies shall perish.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A false witness shall not remain unpunished; and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

NET Bible

A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will perish.

New Heart English Bible

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

The Emphasized Bible

A false witness, shall not be held innocent, and, he that uttereth lies, shall perish.

Webster

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

World English Bible

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

Youngs Literal Translation

A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A false
שׁקר 
Sheqer 
Usage: 113

עד 
`ed 
Usage: 69

and he that speaketh
פּוּח 
Puwach 
Usage: 14

כּזב 
Kazab 
Usage: 30

References

Hastings

Context Readings

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

8 He obtaining a heart loved his soul: he watched understanding to find good. 9 A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall perish. 10 Delight is not becoming to the foolish one; much less for a servant to rule over chiefs.



Cross References

Proverbs 19:5

A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall not escape.

Isaiah 9:15-17

The old man and they lifting up faces, he the head; and the prophet teaching falsehood, be the tail.

Jeremiah 23:25-32

I heard what the prophets said, prophesying a falsehood in my name, saying, I dreamed, I dreamed.

Jeremiah 28:15-17

And Jeremiah the prophet will say to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah sent thee not; and thou didst cause this people to trust upon falsehood.

Jeremiah 29:31-32

Send to all the captivity, saying, Thus said Jehovah to Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he will cause you to trust in falsehood:

Ezekiel 13:22

Because ye afflicted the heart of the just one with falsehood, and I afflicted him not; and to strengthen the hands of the evil one not to turn back from his evil way, to preserve him alive.

2 Thessalonians 2:8-10

And then shall the Lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the spirit of his mouth, and leave unemployed in the splendor of his arrival:

1 Timothy 4:1-2

And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits;

2 Peter 2:1-3

And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction.

Revelation 19:20

And the wild beast was seized, and with him the false prophet having done signs before him, with which he deceived them having received the stamp of the wild beast, and them worshipping his image. Living, were they two cast into the lake of fire burning with sulphur.

Revelation 21:8

But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,

Revelation 22:15

And without, dogs, and charmers and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one loving and doing a lie.

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