Proverbs 12:18
WEB
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
BSB
Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
KJV
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H3426
prt — is, are, be
Derivation: perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist; entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (1961);
there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
KJV: (there) are, (he, it, shall, there, there may, there shall, there should) be, thou do, had, hast, (which) hath, (I, shalt, that) have, (he, it, there) is, substance, it (there) was, (there) were, ye will, thou wilt, wouldest.
subst — being
יֵשׁ 137 subst. being, substance, existence
1. substance
2. elsewhere (prop. as a subst. in in the st. c.), it asserts existence, and so corresponds to the verb substantive, is (are, was, were, will be), lit. the being, presence of …
H981
v — babble, vociferate angrily
Derivation: or בָּטָה; a primitive root;
to babble; hence, to vociferate angrily
KJV: pronounce, speak (unadvisedly).
vb — speak rashly
[בָּטָה, בָּטָא] vb. speak rashly, thoughtlessly
Qal one that babbleth
Pi. speak rashly, unadvisedly
H4094
n-f — wound
Derivation: from 1856;
a wound
KJV: piercing.
H2719
n-f — drought, cutting, destructive, knife, sword
Derivation: from 2717;
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
KJV: axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
n.f — sword
חֶ֫רֶב 411 n.f. sword (as weapon)
H3956
n-m — tongue
Derivation: or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from 3960;
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
KJV: babbler, bay, evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
n.m — tongue
לָשׁוֹן n.m. and (more oft.) f. tongue
1. tongue of men
2. = language
3. tongue of animals
4. tongue of fire
5. = (tongue-shaped) wedge of gold
6. = (tongue-shaped) bay of sea
H2450
a — wise
Derivation: from 2449;
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
KJV: cunning (man), subtil, (un-), wise((hearted), man).
adj — wise
חָכָם adj. wise
1. skilful in technical work
2. wise in the administration of affairs
3. shrewd, crafty, cunning
4. pl. class of learned and shrewd men, incl. astrologers, magicians and the like
5. prudent
6. wise, ethically and religiously
H4832
n-m — curative, medicine, cure, deliverance, placidity
Derivation: from 7495;
properly, curative, i.e. literally (concretely) a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity
KJV: (in-)cure(-able), healing(-lth), remedy, sound, wholesome, yielding.
n.m — healing
מַרְפֵּא, מַרְפֵּה n.m. healing, cure, health (usu. fig.)
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Verse 18
Proverbs 12:18
The tongue is death or life, poison or medicine, as it is used. 1. There are words that are cutting and killing, that are like the piercings of a sword. Opprobrious words grieve the spirits of those to whom they are spoken, and cut them to the heart. Slanders, like a sword, wound the reputation of those of whom they are uttered, and perhaps incurably. Whisperings and evil surmises, like a sword, divide and cut asunder the bounds of love and friendship, and separate those that have been dearest to each other. 2. There are words that are curing and healing: The tongue of the wise is health, closing up those wounds which the backbiting tongue had given, making all whole again, restoring peace, and accommodating matters in variance and persuading to reconciliation. Wisdom will find out proper remedies against the mischiefs that are made by detraction and evil-speaking.