Proverbs 12:18
King James Version (KJV)
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
American Standard Version (ASV)
There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
World English Bible (WEB)
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 12:18 Cross References
The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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.
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
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.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
