Proverbs 25:18
Good News Translation
A false accusation is as deadly as a sword, a club, or a sharp arrow.

New Revised Standard Version
Like a war club, a sword, or a sharp arrow is one who bears false witness against a neighbor.

Contemporary English Version
Telling lies about friends is like attacking them with clubs and swords and sharp arrows.

New American Bible
A club, sword, or sharp arrow— the one who bears false witness against a neighbor.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Proverbs 12:18 There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Psalm 52:2 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Psalm 55:21 They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.

Psalm 57:4 And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 120:3,4 What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue? . . .

Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

Jeremiah 9:3,8 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. . . .

James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

Context
More Proverbs of Solomon
17Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee. 18A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.19To trust in an unfaithful man in the time of trouble, is like a rotten tooth, and weary foot,…
Cross References
Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Psalm 57:4
And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 120:4
The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.

Proverbs 12:18
There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 24:28
Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.

Proverbs 25:17
Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.

Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit: with his mouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait for him.

Proverbs 25:17
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