Is as cruel and pernicious to him as any instrument of death. The design of the proverb is to show the wickedness of slander, and that a false witness is in some respect as bad as a murderer.
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Proverbs 25:18
18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.