Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A healed tongue is a tree of life, And perverseness in it -- a breach in the spirit.
New American Standard Bible
But perversion in it
King James Version
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Holman Bible
but a devious tongue
International Standard Version
A gentle statement is a tree of life, but perverted speech shatters the spirit.
A Conservative Version
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a breaking of the spirit.
American Standard Version
A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
Amplified
A soothing tongue [speaking words that build up and encourage] is a tree of life,
But a perversive tongue [speaking words that overwhelm and depress] crushes the spirit.
Bible in Basic English
A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.
Darby Translation
Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life; but crookedness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
Julia Smith Translation
The healing of the tongue the tree of life: and perverseness in it a breaking in the spirit
King James 2000
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it [causes] a break in spirit.
Modern King James verseion
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but crookedness in it is a break in the spirit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life; but he that abuseth it, hath a broken mind.
NET Bible
Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.
New Heart English Bible
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
The Emphasized Bible
Gentleness of the tongue, is a tree of life, but, crookedness therein, a grievous wound in the spirit.
Webster
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness in it is a breach in the spirit.
World English Bible
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
Themes
Perversion » Perverseness within the tongue
Speech/communication » Wholesome tongues
Speech/communication » Perverseness within the tongue
Tree of life » What is a tree of life
Trees » Illustrative » Of the life and conversation of the righteous
Topics
Interlinear
Marpe'
Lashown
Sheber
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 15:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
3 In every place are the eyes of Jehovah, Watching the evil and the good. 4 A healed tongue is a tree of life, And perverseness in it -- a breach in the spirit. 5 A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:18
A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy.
Proverbs 12:18
A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
Genesis 3:22-24
And Jehovah God saith, 'Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' --
Psalm 52:2-4
Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalm 109:22
For I am poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.
Proverbs 16:24
Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
Proverbs 18:8
The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.
Malachi 4:2
And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness -- and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.
1 Timothy 6:3
if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,
Revelation 2:7
He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming -- I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.