THEOSISProverbs 12:18Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.
יֵ֣שׁ בּ֭וֹטֶה כְּמַדְקְר֣וֹת חָ֑רֶב וּלְשׁ֖וֹן חֲכָמִ֣ים מַרְפֵּֽא׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 16:24Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- Prov 15:4A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.
- Ps 57 (56):4
- Ps 52 (51):2
- Jas 3:6And 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.
- Jas 3:8But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.
- Prov 4:22For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
- Dan 11:33And they that are learned among the people shall teach many: and they shall fall by the sword, and by fire, and by captivity, and by spoil for many days.