Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Sharpened
Like a serpent
Adders
General references
Bible References
Sharpened
Psalm 52:2
Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear?
Psalm 64:3
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
Proverbs 12:18
There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
James 3:6
and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.
Like a serpent
Genesis 3:13
And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
Proverbs 23:32
at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Matthew 12:34
Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.
Adders
Psalm 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
Romans 3:13
their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips:
General references
Proverbs 25:18
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, is a man that beareth false witness against his neighbour.