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Proverbs 12:18
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There is one who speaks rashly,like a piercing sword;but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Careless words stab like a sword, but wise words bring healing.
Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.
There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Sharp words cut like a sword, but words of wisdom heal.
Idle talk can pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise can heal.
There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
Speak without thinking, and your words can cut like a knife. Be wise, and your words can heal.
There are those whose speech is like the piercing of a sword; but the tongue of the wise heals.
Thoughtless words can wound as deeply as any sword, but wisely spoken words can heal.
There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
There is a rash speaking like thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is healing.
A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.
There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
There is that speaketh like the pearcings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
Some wound as they speak, like swords; but the tongues of the wise heal.
There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
A man is that bihetith, and he is prickid as with the swerd of conscience; but the tunge of wise men is helthe.
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health.
Some people make cutting remarks, but the words of the wise bring healing.
There is one whose foolish words cut like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
There is who babbleth, as with thrusts of a sword, but, the tongue of the wise, hath healing.
There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
Rash language cuts and maims, but there is healing in the words of the wise.
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
that: Proverbs 25:18, Psalms 52:2, Psalms 57:4, Psalms 59:7, Psalms 64:3, James 3:6-8
like: Compare, Revelation 1:16
but: Proverbs 10:20, Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 13:17, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs 16:24, Daniel 11:33, Revelation 22:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:13 - deceitfully Job 4:4 - upholden Job 5:21 - be hid Job 6:25 - forcible Job 19:2 - break me Psalms 42:10 - As with Psalms 55:21 - The words Psalms 140:3 - sharpened Proverbs 4:22 - health Proverbs 10:32 - but Proverbs 12:25 - but Proverbs 15:4 - A wholesome Proverbs 18:8 - words Proverbs 30:14 - whose Proverbs 31:26 - in her Ecclesiastes 10:12 - words Luke 6:45 - good man John 8:7 - and said Romans 6:13 - and your James 3:5 - so
Cross-References
And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?
And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword,.... Whose words are like sharp swords, cutting, wounding, dividing, killing; see Psalms 57:4; such are the words of false witnesses, who by their false testimonies and perjuries are as guilty of the murder of men as cutthroats; such are the words of slanderers, backbiters, and talebearers, who grieve the innocent, wound their characters, destroy their good name and credit, and separate chief friends; and such are the words of antichrist, who looks like a lamb, but speaks like a dragon, Revelation 13:11;
but the tongue of the wise [is] health; or "healing" e; by giving a faithful testimony which sets matters right; by clearing and defending the character of those who are falsely accused and wrongfully charged; by making up differences, and reconciling persons at variance through the detracting and lying insinuations of others; and by speaking comfortable, cheerful, and refreshing words to the injured and abused; especially the tongue of a wise minister of the Gospel is health, or healing, to wounded souls, to whom he ministers the Gospel of the grace of God, which directs to Christ for healing, peace, pardon, righteousness, and eternal life.
e מרפא "medicinae", Junius Tremellius "medicina", Piscator, Cocceius; "sanatio", Michaelis; "sanatrix", Schultens.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 12:18. There is that speaketh — Instead of בוטה boteh, blabbing out, blustering, several MSS. have בוטח boteach, TRUSTING: and instead of כמדקרות kemadkeroth, AS the piercings, seven MSS., with the Complutensian Polyglot, have במדקרות bemadkeroth, IN the piercings. "There is that trusteth in the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health." But I suppose the former to be the true reading.
