Proverbs 21:28
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Attentive Constantly Cut Destroyed Endure Eternity Forever Heareth Hears Listens Obeyeth Perish Speak Speaketh Speaks Truth Witness Word
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English Standard Version
A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure.

New American Standard Bible
A false witness will perish, But the man who listens to the truth will speak forever.

King James Bible
A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A lying witness will perish, but the one who listens will speak successfully.

International Standard Version
A false witness will perish, but whoever listens will testify successfully.

NET Bible
A lying witness will perish, but the one who reports accurately speaks forever.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A false witness will be destroyed and an attentive man speaks justly.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A lying witness will die, but a person who listens to advice will continue to speak.

King James 2000 Bible
A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears speaks constantly.

American King James Version
A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears speaks constantly.

American Standard Version
A false witness shall perish; But the man that heareth shall speak so as to endure.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A lying witness shall perish: an obedient man shall speak of victory.

Darby Bible Translation
A lying witness shall perish; and a man that heareth shall speak constantly.

English Revised Version
A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth shall speak unchallenged.

Webster's Bible Translation
A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.

World English Bible
A false witness will perish, and a man who listens speaks to eternity.

Young's Literal Translation
A false witness doth perish, And an attentive man for ever speaketh.
Lexicon
A false.
kazab  (kaw-zawb')
falsehood; literally (untruth) or figuratively (idol) -- deceitful, false, leasing, + liar, lie, lying.
witness
`ed  (ayd)
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince -- witness.
shall perish
'abad  (aw-bad')
to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
but the man
'iysh  (eesh)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
that heareth
shama`  (shaw-mah')
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
speaketh
dabar  (daw-bar')
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
constantly
netsach  (neh'-tsakh)
a goal, i.e. the bright object at a distance travelled towards; hence (figuratively), splendor, or (subjectively) truthfulness, or (objectively) confidence; but usually (adverbially), continually (i.e. to the most distant point of view)
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