Proverbs 25:18
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, || [Is] the man testifying a false testimony against his neighbor.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
In Context
17Withdraw your foot from your neighbor’s house, || Lest he is satiated [with] you, and has hated you.
19A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, || [Is] the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.
Cross References
Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises mischiefs, || Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalms 57:4My soul [is] in the midst of lions, || I lie down [among] flames—sons of men, || Their teeth [are] a spear and arrows, || And their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms 140:3They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, || Poison of a viper [is] under their lips. Selah.
Proverbs 24:28Do not be a witness against your neighbor for nothing, || Or you have enticed with your lips.
Jeremiah 9:8Their tongue [is] a slaughtering arrow, || It has spoken deceit in its mouth, || It speaks peace with its neighbor, || And in its heart it lays its ambush,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:18
17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. Here he mentions another pleasure which we must not take too much of, that of visiting our friends, the former for fear of surfeiting ourselves, this for fear of surfeiting our neighbour. 1. It is a piece of civility to visit our neighbours sometimes, to show our respect to them and concern for them, and to cultivate and improve mutual acquaintance and love, and that we may have both the satisfaction and advantage of their… Read the whole commentary →