PRO 15:4 Parallel View

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ULT A healing tongue is a tree of life,
 ⇔ but crookedness in it is a breaking in the spirit.

UST What people say soothingly is like a tree with fruit that keeps people alive,
⇔ but what people say deceitfully makes people despair.

BSB  ⇔ A soothing tongue is a tree of life,
⇔ but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

OEB A soothing tongue is life,
⇔ but violent words break the spirit.

WEB A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
⇔ but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

NET Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree,
 ⇔ but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.

LSV A healed tongue [is] a tree of life,
And perverseness in it—a breach in the spirit.

FBV Gentle words are a source of life, but telling lies does a lot of damage.

T4T  ⇔ Those who speak [MTY] kindly to people are like [MET] trees whose fruit gives life;
⇔ speaking what is false causes people to ◄despair/feel very discouraged►.

LEB • of tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it causes a break in spirit.

BBE A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.

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JPS A soothing tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a wound to the spirit.

ASV A gentle tongue is a tree of life;
 ⇔ But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

DRA A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.

YLT A healed tongue [is] a tree of life, And perverseness in it — a breach in the spirit.

DBY Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life; but crookedness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

RV A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

WBS A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

KJB A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

BB A wholsome tongue is a tree of lyfe: but the frowardnesse therof doth make sad the spirite.
(A wholsome tongue is a tree of life: but the frowardnesse therof doth make sad the spirit.)

GNV A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.
(A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye/you_all minde.)

CB A wholsome tonge is a tre of life, but he that abuseth it, hath a broken mynde.
(A wholsome tongue is a tree of life, but he that abuseth it, hath/has a broken mind.)

WYC A plesaunt tunge is the tre of lijf; but the tunge which is vnmesurable, schal defoule the spirit.
(A plesaunt tunge is the tree of life; but the tunge which is unmesurable, shall defoule the spirit.)

LUT Eine heilsame Zunge ist ein Baum des Lebens; aber eine lügenhaftige macht Her
(Eine heilsame Zunge is a Baum the life; but one lügenhaftige macht Her)

CLV Lingua placabilis lignum vitæ; quæ autem immoderata est conteret spiritum.
(Lingua placabilis lignum vitæ; which however immoderata it_is conteret spiritum.)

BRN The wholesome tongue is a tree of life, and he that keeps it shall be filled with understanding.

BrLXX Ἴασις γλώσσης δένδρον ζωῆς, ὁ δὲ συντηρῶν αὐτὴν πλησθήσεται πνεύματος.
(Iasis glōssaʸs dendron zōaʸs, ho de suntaʸrōn autaʸn plaʸsthaʸsetai pneumatos.)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

מַרְפֵּ֣א לָ֭שׁוֹן & וְ⁠סֶ֥לֶף בָּ֝֗⁠הּ שֶׁ֣בֶר בְּ⁠רֽוּחַ

gentle tongue & and,perverseness in/on/at/with,it breaks in/on/at/with,spirit

A healing tongue, it, and a breaking in the spirit do not refer to specific things but represent these things in general. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use more natural expressions. Alternate translation: “Any healing tongue … but crookedness in any such tongue is what breaks spirits”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

מַרְפֵּ֣א לָ֭שׁוֹן

gentle tongue

A healing tongue refers to what someone says that soothes the listener. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. See how you translated the similar use of tongue in 6:17. Alternate translation: “The comforting thing someone says”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

עֵ֣ץ חַיִּ֑ים

tree/word life(pl)

See how you translated a tree of life in 3:18.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וְ⁠סֶ֥לֶף בָּ֝֗⁠הּ

and,perverseness in/on/at/with,it

Here, Solomon refers to deceitful speech as if it were a crooked tongue. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “but the deceitful thing someone says”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

שֶׁ֣בֶר בְּ⁠רֽוּחַ

breaks in/on/at/with,spirit

The phrase a breaking in the spirit is an idiom that refers to making a person despair. If it would be helpful, you could use an equivalent idiom from your language or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “makes a person feel down in the dumps” or “makes a person despair”

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