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Proverbs 12:18
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Some people make cutting remarks, but the words of the wise bring healing.
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
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 that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
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 that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
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 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 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 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 that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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 rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.
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.
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 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 to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground.
So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. [fn]
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land.
And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance.
And Laban said to Jacob: "What have you done, that you have stolen away unknown to me, and carried away my daughters like captives taken with the sword?
And Joseph said to them, "What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly practice divination?"
And Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?"
Now Joshua said to Achan, "My son, I beg you, give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession to Him, and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me."
Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." And Jonathan told him, and said, "I only tasted a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand. So now 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.
