Proverbs 25:18
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New International Version (©1984)
Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow is the man who gives false testimony against his neighbor.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Telling lies about others is as harmful as hitting them with an ax, wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow.

English Standard Version (©2001)
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow Is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
[Like] a club and a sword and a sharp arrow, [so] is a person who gives false testimony against his neighbor.

King James Bible
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

American King James Version
A man that 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Darby Bible Translation
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, is a man that beareth false witness against his neighbour.

English Revised Version
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.

Geneva Study Bible

A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Wesley's Notes

25:18 A sword - Is as cruel and pernicious as any instrument of death.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18. A false witness is as destructive to reputation, as such weapons to the body (Pr 24:28).

beareth . witness-literally, "answereth questions," as before a judge, against his neighbor.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:17. We cannot be upon good terms with our neighbours, without discretion as well as sincerity. How much better a Friend is God than any other friend! The oftener we come to him, the more welcome. 18. A false testimony is dangerous in every thing.


Exodus 20:16 "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions; I must lie among those who breathe forth fire, Even 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.
Proverbs 24:28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, And do not deceive with your lips.
Jeremiah 9:8 "Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he sets an ambush for him. (NASB ©1995)

Arrow Beareth Bears Club False. Gives Maul Neighbor Neighbour Sharp Sword Testimony War Witness


A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

12:18 Ps 52:2 55:21 57:4 120:3,4 140:3 Jer 9:3,8 Jas 3:6

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