Proverbs 15:4

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.A wholesome…: Heb. The healing of the tongue

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

DRC

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

GNV

A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

JPS

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

LXXE

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

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

מַרְפֵּ֣א לָ֭שׁוֹן עֵ֣ץ חַיִּ֑ים וְסֶ֥לֶף בָּ֝֗הּ שֶׁ֣בֶר בְּרֽוּחַ׃

LXX-Br

Ἴασις γλώσσης δένδρον ζωῆς, ὁ δὲ συντηρῶν αὐτὴν πλησθήσεται πνεύματος.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 16:24Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
• Proverbs 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
• Proverbs 18:8The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
• Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
• Malachi 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
• Proverbs 18:14The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
• Revelation 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
• Proverbs 26:22The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
• Psalms 52:2–4Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
• 1 Timothy 6:3If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,
• Psalms 109:22For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
• Genesis 3:22–24Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...” Therefore the LORD God…

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