Proverbs 15:4
A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Lingua placabilis lignum vitæ ; quæ autem immoderata est conteret spiritum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἴασις γλώσσης δένδρον ζωῆς, ὁ δὲ συντηρῶν αὐτὴν πλησθήσεται πνεύματος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מַרְפֵּ֣א לָ֭שׁוֹן עֵ֣ץ חַיִּ֑ים וְסֶ֥לֶף בָּ֝֗הּ שֶׁ֣בֶר בְּרֽוּחַ
Haydock's commentary
Life. This comparison was become proverbial for something very excellent. Immoderate. Hebrew, "perverse." (Calmet)
Evil discourse kills the souls both of those who speak, and of those who pay attention to it. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.