Proverbs 25:18
16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an 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 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.
Read in contextProverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Read in contextJames 3:6
And 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Read in contextProverbs 24:28
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
Read in contextPsalms 120:3–4
What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
Read in contextJeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
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