Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

A witness of falsehood will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will not escape.

Modern King James verseion

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and a breather of lies shall not escape.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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

World English Bible

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

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

4 Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated. 5 A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered. 6 Many entreat the face of the noble, And all have made friendship to a man of gifts.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:28

A false witness doth perish, And an attentive man for ever speaketh.

Exodus 23:1

'Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

Proverbs 6:19

A false witness who doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

Proverbs 19:9

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

Deuteronomy 5:11

'Thou dost not take up the Name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah doth not acquit him who taketh up His Name for a vain thing.

Deuteronomy 19:16-21

'When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostasy,

1 Kings 2:9

and now, acquit him not, for a wise man thou art, and thou hast known that which thou dost to him, and hast brought down his old age with blood to Sheol.'

Psalm 120:3-4

What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

Daniel 6:24

And the king hath said, and they have brought those men who had accused Daniel, and to the den of lions they have cast them, they, their sons, and their wives; and they have not come to the lower part of the den till that the lions have power over them, and all their bones they have broken small.

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