Proverbs 25:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 25:18 —

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Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Psalms 120:3-4
What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18)

Here, 1. The sin condemned is bearing false witness against our neighbour, either in judgment or in common conversation, contrary to the law of the ninth commandment. 2. That which it is here condemned for is the mischievousness of it; it is in its power to ruin not only men’s reputation, but their lives, estates, families, all that is dear to them. A false testimony is every thing that is dangero…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. A false witness is as destructive to reputation, as such weapons to the body (Pr 24:28). beareth ... witness--literally, “answereth questions,” as before a judge, against his neighbor.