PRO 12:18 Parallel View

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12:18 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.

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ULT There is one who speaks thoughtlessly like the thrusts of a sword,
 ⇔ but the tongue of the wise ones causes healing.

UST When people speak without thinking, they hurt others like someone who stabs people with a sword;
⇔ but what wise people say helps people heal.

BSB  ⇔ Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword,
⇔ but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

OEB The chatter of some is like sword-thrusts.
⇔ but the tongue of the wise is healing.

WEB There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword,
⇔ but the tongue of the wise heals.

NET Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword,
 ⇔ but the words of the wise bring healing.

LSV A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword,
And the tongue of the wise is healing.

FBV Some people's hasty words cut like a knife, but the words of the wise bring healing.

T4T  ⇔ What some people say hurts people badly, as much as [SIM] a sword can;
⇔ but what wise people say ◄heals others’ souls/comforts others►.

LEB • but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

BBE There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.

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JPS There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.

ASV There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword;
 ⇔ But the tongue of the wise is health.

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

YLT A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

DBY There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.

RV There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

WBS There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

KJB There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
(There is that speakth/speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. )

BB A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
(A slaunderous person pricketh like a sword: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.)

GNV There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
(There is that speakth/speaks words like the prickings of a sword: but the tongue of wise men is health. )

CB A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wyse mans tonge is wholsome.
(A slaunderous personne pricketh like a swerde, but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.)

WYC A man is that bihetith, and he is prickid as with the swerd of conscience; but the tunge of wise men is helthe.

LUT Wer unvorsichtig herausfährt, sticht wie ein Schwert; aber die Zunge der Weisen ist heilsam.
(Who unvorsichtig herausfährt, sticht like a Schwert; but the Zunge the Weisen is heilsam.)

CLV Est qui promittit, et quasi gladio pungitur conscientiæ: lingua autem sapientium sanitas est.[fn]
(Est who promittit, and as_if gladio pungitur conscientiæ: lingua however sapientium sanitas est.)

12.18 Lingua autem sapientium est sanitas, etc., quia et bona, quæ promittunt, ipsi perficiendo ad vitam perveniunt; et aliis, quæ sequantur, demonstrant

12.18 Lingua however sapientium it_is sanitas, etc., because and good, which promittunt, ipsi perficiendo to life perveniunt; and aliis, which sequantur, demonstrant

BRN Some wound as they speak, like swords; but the tongues of the wise heal.

BrLXX Εἰσὶν οἳ λέγοντες τιτρώσκουσι, μάχαιραι· γλῶσσαι δὲ σοφῶν ἰῶνται.
(Eisin hoi legontes titrōskousi, maⱪairai; glōssai de sofōn iōntai. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

בּ֭וֹטֶה

speaks_rashly

Here, one refers to a type of person. It does not mean that there is only one person who does this thing. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a different expression. Alternate translation: “a type of person who speaks thoughtlessly”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

כְּ⁠מַדְקְר֣וֹת חָ֑רֶב

like,thrusts sword

Solomon is saying that what people who speak thoughtlessly say is like the thrusts of a sword because it hurts people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state that explicitly. Alternate translation: “and hurt others as if he stabbed them with a sword”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

וּ⁠לְשׁ֖וֹן

and=(the)_tongue

The word tongue represents tongues in general, not one particular tongue. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a more natural expression. Alternate translation: “but the tongues of”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

וּ⁠לְשׁ֖וֹן

and=(the)_tongue

See how you translated the same use of tongue in 6:17.

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