Proverbs 25:18
16 If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.
Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
19 Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
20 Like one who removes a garment on a cold day or vinegar poured on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
- KJV
- A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
- WEB
- A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
- ASV
- A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
- DARBY
- A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, is a man that beareth false witness against his neighbour.
- BLB
- A club or a sharpened sword, or an arrow, [is] a man answering against his neighbor a testimony of falsehood.
- ÅB
- Som en hammer, et sverd, en hvass pil er en mann som fører falskt vitnesbyrd mot sin neste.
- OTB
- Som en klubbe, et sverd eller en skarp pil er den som gir falskt vitnesbyrd mot en nabo.
- B1930
- Som en hammer, et sverd, en hvass pil er en mann som fører falskt vidnesbyrd mot sin næste.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 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.
Read in contextProverbs 12:18
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Read in contextJames 3:6
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.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:8
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.
Read in contextProverbs 24:28
Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Read in contextPsalms 120:3–4
What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
Read in contextJeremiah 9:3
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 140:3
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
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