KJV King James Version
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
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Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
WEB World English Bible
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
ASV American Standard Version
There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 12
15 The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise.
16 A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent [man] covereth shame.
17 [He that] speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue [is] but for a moment.
20 Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace [is] joy.
21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
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Proverbs 16:24Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.Psalm 57:4My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.Proverbs 10:20-21The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth.Psalm 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.James 3:6-8And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.Daniel 11:33And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, [many] days.Proverbs 13:17A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador [is] health.Proverbs 15:7The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish [doeth] not so.Proverbs 4:22For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.Proverbs 25:18A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour [is] a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.Psalm 64:3Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:Revelation 1:16And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance [was] as the sun shineth in his strength.Psalm 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?Revelation 22:2In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations.
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