Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will perish.

Modern King James verseion

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and one speaking lies shall perish.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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

World English Bible

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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

8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: He that keepeth understanding shall find good. 9 A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall perish. 10 Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.



Cross References

Proverbs 19:5

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

Isaiah 9:15-17

The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Jeremiah 23:25-32

I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Jeremiah 28:15-17

Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Jehovah hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

Jeremiah 29:31-32

Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath caused you to trust in a lie;

Ezekiel 13:22

Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:

2 Thessalonians 2:8-10

And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;

1 Timothy 4:1-2

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

2 Peter 2:1-3

But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:

Revelation 21:8

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part'shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15

Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

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