Proverbs 15:4

Modern

A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

Traditional

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Literal

A healing tongue is a tree of life, and crookedness in it is a breaking in the spirit.

Latin

Lingua placabilis lignum vitæ; quæ autem immoderata est conteret spiritum.

Hebrew

English

A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

Theme notes and profiles

Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 12:18
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
Malachi 4:2
“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
Psalm 109:22
For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
Psalm 52:2–4
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Genesis 3:22–24
Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,