Other translations
New Catholic Bible
good and evil, life and death, and their mistress is always the tongue.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
it sprouts four branches, good and evil, life and death; and it is the tongue that continually rules them.
Good News Translation®
The mind concerns itself with four things: these are good and evil, life and death. They all begin in the mind, but the tongue is their absolute ruler.
Wycliffe Bible
of which heart four parts come forth; good and evil, life and death; and a busy tongue is lord of those. [of the which four parts spring; good and evil, life and death; and the lordshipper of these is a busy tongue.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
four turns of fortune appear, good and evil, life and death; and it is the tongue that continually rules them.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
it sprouts four branches, good and evil, life and death, and it is the tongue that continually rules them.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
it sprouts four branches, good and evil, life and death; and it is the tongue that continually rules them.
Common English Bible © 2011
it poses four possibilities: good and evil, life and death, and their continual master is the tongue.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
four branches it shoots forth: Good and evil, death and life, and their absolute mistress is the tongue.
Revised Standard Version
four turns of fortune appear, good and evil, life and death; and it is the tongue that continually rules them.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
it sprouts four branches, good and evil, life and death; and it is the tongue that continually rules them.