Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
New American Standard Bible
But the
King James Version
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Holman Bible
like a piercing sword;
but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
International Standard Version
Some speak rashly like the cutting of a sword, but what the wise say promotes healing.
American Standard Version
There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
Amplified
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Bible in Basic English
There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
Darby Translation
There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
Julia Smith Translation
There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.
King James 2000
There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.
Lexham Expanded Bible
There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Modern King James verseion
There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A slanderous person pricketh like a sword; but a wise man's tongue is wholesome.
NET Bible
Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.
New Heart English Bible
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
The Emphasized Bible
There is who babbleth, as with thrusts of a sword, but, the tongue of the wise, hath healing.
Webster
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
World English Bible
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Youngs Literal Translation
A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
Themes
Evil » Speech evil speaking » General references to
Speaking, evil » General references to
Speech » Evil, general references to
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 12:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
17 He who utters truth shows forth righteousness, but a FALSE witness, deceit. 18 There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health. 19 The lips of truth shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Cross References
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Psalm 52:2
Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for [they say], Who hears?
Psalm 64:3
who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
Proverbs 4:22
For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 10:20-21
The tongue of a righteous man is choice silver. The heart of the wicked is little worth.
Proverbs 13:17
A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs 15:4
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a breaking of the spirit.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the foolish, not so.
Proverbs 25:18
A man who bears FALSE witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Daniel 11:33
And 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.
James 3:6-8
And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.
Revelation 1:16
and having in his right hand seven stars, and a sharp two-edged sword coming out of his mouth. And the sight of him was as the sun shines in its strength.
Revelation 22:2
in the middle of its thoroughfare. And on this side of the river and on that was a tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit according to each month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.