Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A rash speaker is like piercings of a 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.
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.
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 Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit. 18 A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing. 19 The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.
Cross References
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.
Proverbs 16:24
Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
Psalm 52:2
Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
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 4:22
For life they are to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.
Proverbs 10:20-21
The tongue of the righteous is chosen silver, The heart of the wicked -- as a little thing.
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 25:18
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.
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.
James 3:6-8
and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.
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;