New Revised Standard Version
By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
Good people bring prosperity to their city, but deceitful liars can destroy a city.

New American Bible
Through the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but through the mouth of the wicked it is overthrown.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that despiseth his friend, is mean of heart: but the wise man will hold his peace.

He that despiseth his friend, is mean of heart: but the wise man will hold his peace.

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Proverbs 14:34 Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable.

Proverbs 29:8 Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but wise men turn away wrath.

Genesis 41:38-42 And he said to them: Can we find such another man, that is full of the spirit of God? . . .

Genesis 45:8 Not by your counsel was I sent hither, but by the will of God: who hath made me as it were a father to Pharao, and lord of his whole house, and governor in all the land of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 32:20-22 And Ezechias the king, and Isaias the prophet the son of Amos, prayed against this blasphemy, and cried out to heaven. . . .

Job 22:30 The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.

Ecclesiastes 9:15 Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man.

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2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet, and said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai: return to thy dwellings, O Israel.

Esther 3:8-15 And Aman said to king Assuerus: There is a people scattered through all the provinces of thy kingdom, and separated one from another, that use new laws and ceremonies, and moreover despise the king's ordinances: and thou knowest very well that it is not expedient for thy kingdom that they should grow insolent by impunity. . . .

Esther 9:1-16 So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have said above is called Adar, when all the Jews were designed to be massacred, and their enemies were greedy after their blood, the case being altered, the Jews began to have the upper hand, and to revenge themselves of their adversaries. . . .

James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.