Proverbs 24:28
World English Bible (WEB)
Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
In context
26 An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
27 Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
28 Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
29 Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
Proverbs 24:28 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
- KJV King James Version
- Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.