Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.
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.
A Conservative Version
There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
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.
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 breathing out faithfulness will announce justice: and a witness of falsehoods, deceit 18 There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing. 19 The lip of truth shall be prepared forever: and the tongue of falsehood while I shall wink.
Cross References
Psalm 57:4
My soul is in the midst of lions: I shall lie down with the flaming, the sons of man, their teeth spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 16:24
Words of pleasantness an, honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.
Psalm 52:2
Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they will gush out with their mouth: swords in their lips: for who heard?
Psalm 64:3
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:
Proverbs 4:22
For they are life to those finding them, and healing to all their flesh.
Proverbs 10:20-21
The tongue of the just is choice silver: the heart of the unjust is as little.
Proverbs 13:17
The unjust messenger shall fall into evil: and a messenger of faithfulness is healing.
Proverbs 15:4
The healing of the tongue the tree of life: and perverseness in it a breaking in the spirit
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise will disperse knowledge: and the heart of the foolish not so.
Proverbs 25:18
A mallet and a sword and an arrow sharpened, the man answering against his neighbor testimony of falsehood.
Daniel 11:33
And those understanding of the people shall cause to understand to many: and they were weak by the sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by plunder, days.
James 3:6-8
(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.
Revelation 1:16
And having in his right hand seven stars: and going out of his mouth a sharp two-mouthed sword: and his sight as the sun shines in his power.
Revelation 22:2
In the midst of her broad way and of the river, hence and thence, the tree of life, making twelve fruits, in a month each one returning its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the cure of the nations.