Proverbs 12:18

Modern

Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Traditional

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Literal

There is one speaking rashly like the thrusts of a sword, and the tongue of the wise ones is healing.

Latin

Est qui promittit, et quasi gladio pungitur conscientiæ: lingua autem sapientium sanitas est.

Hebrew

English

Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 15:4
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 10:20–21
The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
James 3:6–8
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Proverbs 25:18
Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the hearts of fools.
Proverbs 4:22
For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
Daniel 11:33
Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.
Proverbs 13:17
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
Psalm 64:3
…who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,