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Proverbs 18:21
Death and life, are in the power of the tongue, and, its friends, shall eat its fruits.
Proverbs 18:21 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
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Proverbs 18:21 in other translations
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
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In context
18 The lot causeth, contentions, to cease, and, the mighty, it parteth.
19 A brother estranged, [is worse] than a strong city,—and, contentions, are as the bar of a citadel.
20 Of the fruit of a man’s mouth, shall his inmost mind be satisfied, with the product of his lips, shall he be satisfied.
21 Death and life, are in the power of the tongue, and, its friends, shall eat its fruits.
22 Who hath found a wife, hath found a blessing, and hath obtained favour from Yahweh.
23 Supplications, doth the poor man utter, but, the rich, answereth fiercely.
24 A man having [many] friends, shall come to ruin, but there is a loving one, who sticketh closer than a brother.
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