Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword,.... Whose words are like sharp swords, cutting, wounding, dividing, killing; see Psa 57:4; such are the words of false witnesses, who by their…
Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714
Matthew Henry
The tongue is death or life, poison or medicine, as it is used. 1. There are words that are cutting and killing, that are like the piercings of a sword. Opprobrious words grieve the spirits of those…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
speaketh Rather, speaketh rashly, R.V.; scattereth thoughtless words, as one might recklessly brandish a naked sword.
"Many a word at random spoken
May wound … a heart that's broken."
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