Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
As for the slanderer, let him not be established in the earth, - As for the man of wrongful violence, let misfortune hunt him with thrust upon thrust.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Holman Bible
Let evil relentlessly
International Standard Version
Let not the slanderer become established in the land. May evil quickly hunt down the violent man.
A Conservative Version
An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth. Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
American Standard Version
An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth: Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Amplified
“Do not let a slanderer be established in the earth;
Let evil quickly hunt the violent man [to overthrow him and stop his evil acts].”
Bible in Basic English
Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.
Darby Translation
Let not the man of evil tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to his ruin.
Julia Smith Translation
A man of tongue shall not be prepared in the earth: a man of violence, evil shall hunt him to melt down the coverings.
King James 2000
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not let a {slanderer} be established in the land; as for [the] man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly.
Modern King James verseion
Do not let an evil speaker be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A man full of words shall not prosper upon the earth; a malicious and wicked person shall be hunted away, and destroyed.
NET Bible
A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.
New Heart English Bible
An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Webster
Let not an evil speaker be established on the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
World English Bible
An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Youngs Literal Translation
A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 140:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Rescue
10 May there be dropped on them live coals, - Into the fire, may they be let fall, into watery pits from which they shall not rise. 11 As for the slanderer, let him not be established in the earth, - As for the man of wrongful violence, let misfortune hunt him with thrust upon thrust. 12 I know that Yahweh will execute, the right of the oppressed one, the vindication of the needy.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 34:21
Misfortune shall be the death of the lawless one, And, the haters of the righteous man, shall be held guilty.
Psalm 7:14-16
Lo! he gendereth trouble, and conceiveth mischief, but giveth birth to a disappointment:
Psalm 9:16
To be known is Yahweh, by the sentence he hath executed, By the doing of his own hands, is he about to strike down the lawless one. Refunding music. Selah.
Psalm 12:3-4
May Yahweh cut off All the lips that utter smooth things, - the tongue that speaketh swelling words;
Proverbs 6:17
Eyes that are lofty, a tongue that is false, and hands shedding innocent blood;
Proverbs 12:13
By the transgression of the lips, is the wicked man, ensnared, but the righteous, cometh out of distress.
Proverbs 13:21
Evil pursueth, sinners, but, unto the righteous, shall good be recompensed.
Proverbs 17:20
The crooked in heart, shall not find good, and, he that is perverse with his tongue, shall fall into wickedness.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life, are in the power of the tongue, and, its friends, shall eat its fruits.
Isaiah 3:11
Alas! for the lawless, it is ill, For what his own hand hath matured, shall he done to him.