Proverbs 19:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will perish.

New Living Translation
A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will be destroyed.

English Standard Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.

Berean Study Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.

New American Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, And one who declares lies will perish.

NASB 1995
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will perish.

NASB 1977
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will perish.

Amplified Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who breathes lies will perish.

Christian Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies perishes.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who utters lies perishes.

Contemporary English Version
Dishonest witnesses and liars will be destroyed.

Good News Translation
No one who tells lies in court can escape punishment; he is doomed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A lying witness will not go unpunished. One who tells lies will die.

International Standard Version
A witness to lies will not go unpunished; the teller of falsehoods will perish.

NET Bible
A false witness will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out lies will perish.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

New King James Version
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who speaks lies shall perish.

King James 2000 Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.

New Heart English Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

World English Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

American King James Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.

American Standard Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall perish.

A Faithful Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and one speaking lies shall perish.

Darby Bible Translation
A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall perish.

English Revised Version
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that uttereth lies shall perish.

Webster's Bible Translation
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
A false witnes shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes, shall perish.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished: and he that speaketh lyes shall perishe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
A false wytnesse shal not remayne vnpunyshed, & he yt speaketh lyes shal perishe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
A false witness is not acquitted, "" And whoever breathes out lies perishes.

Young's Literal Translation
A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

Smith's Literal Translation
A witness of falsehoods shall not be unpunished, and he breathing out lies shall perish.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall perish.

Catholic Public Domain Version
A false witness shall not go unpunished. And whoever speaks lies will perish.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
A false witness will not be spared, and he that speaks lies will be destroyed.

Lamsa Bible
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he who speaks lies shall perish.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that breatheth forth lies shall perish.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and whosoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it.
















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