Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Both honor and dishonor can result from speaking; the tongue can be the cause of a person’s downfall.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Honor and dishonor come from speaking, and the tongue of mortals may be their downfall.
Good News Translation®
Speaking can bring you either honor or disgrace; what you say can ruin you.
Wycliffe Bible
Honour and glory is in the word of a wise man; but the tongue of an unprudent man is his destroying. [Worship and glory in the word of the well-feeling; the tongue forsooth of the unprudent is the turning upside-down of him.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Glory and dishonor come from speaking, and a man’s tongue is his downfall.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Honor and dishonor come from speaking, and the tongue of mortals may be their downfall.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Honour and dishonour come from speaking, and the tongue of mortals may be their downfall.
Common English Bible © 2011
Speaking brings glory or dishonor. Indeed, the tongue can be a person’s downfall.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Honor and dishonor through speaking! The tongue can be your downfall.
Revised Standard Version
Glory and dishonor come from speaking, and a man’s tongue is his downfall.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Honour and dishonour come from speaking, and the tongue of mortals may be their downfall.