Parallel Verses
Amplified
Like a club and a sword and a piercing arrow
Is a man who testifies falsely against his neighbor (acquaintance).
New American Standard Bible
Is a man who bears
King James Version
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Holman Bible
is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
International Standard Version
A club, a sword, and a sharp arrow that's what a man is who lies about his neighbor.
A Conservative Version
A man who bears FALSE witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
American Standard Version
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Bible in Basic English
One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.
Darby Translation
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, is a man that beareth false witness against his neighbour.
Julia Smith Translation
A mallet and a sword and an arrow sharpened, the man answering against his neighbor testimony of falsehood.
King James 2000
A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a club, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Like] a club and sword and a sharp arrow [is] a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
Modern King James verseion
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whoso beareth false witness against his neighbour, he is a very spear, a sword, and a sharp arrow.
NET Bible
Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow, so is the one who testifies against his neighbor as a false witness.
New Heart English Bible
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
The Emphasized Bible
A hammer and a sword, and a sharpened arrow, is a man becoming a false witness against his neighbour.
Webster
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
World English Bible
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
Youngs Literal Translation
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.
Themes
Arrows » Illustrative » Of false witnesses
Swords » Figurative » Of the malicious tongue
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 25:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
More Proverbs Of Solomon
17
Let your foot seldom be in your neighbor’s house,
Or he will become tired of you and hate you.
Like a club and a sword and a piercing arrow
Is a man who testifies falsely against his neighbor (acquaintance).
Like a broken tooth or an unsteady foot
Is confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble.
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Cross References
Psalm 57:4
My life is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe out fire—
The sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Jeremiah 9:8
“Their tongue is a murderous arrow;
It speaks deceit;
With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor,
But in his heart he lays traps and waits in ambush for him.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 55:21
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,
But his heart was hostile;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.
Psalm 120:3-4
What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you,
You deceitful tongue?—
Psalm 140:3
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
Proverbs 24:28
Do not be a witness against your
And do not deceive with your lips [speak neither lies nor half-truths].
Jeremiah 9:3
“They bend their tongue like their bow;
[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the Lord.
James 3:6
And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by