Proverbs 25:18
To falsely accuse others in court is like [SIM] attacking them with a war-club or a sword or a sharp arrow.
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
Psalms 52:2All during the day you plan to get rid of others; what you say [MTY] injures others like a sharp razor [SIM], and you are always deceiving others.
Psalms 57:4Sometimes I am surrounded by my enemies who are like lions that kill humans; they are like lions that chew with their teeth animals that they kill; but my enemies have spears and arrows, not teeth; and the false things that they say [MTY] hurt people as much as sharp swords hurt people [MET].
Psalms 140:3By what they say [MTY] they injure people like poisonous snakes do; the words that they speak [MTY] can kill people as easily as cobras/vipers do. (Think about that!)
Proverbs 24:28In the courtroom do not testify against someone when you have no reason to do that, and do not try to deceive people by what you say [MTY].
Jeremiah 9:8What they say [MTY] injures people like [MET] poisoned arrows do. They say to their neighbors, ‘I hope things will go well for you,’ while they are planning to kill them.
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 →