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 imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor.
Psalm 57:4
I lie with my soul among the cruel lions; even among the children of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they speak against me with their mouth, and swords are under their lips, for who reproveth them?
Psalm 64:3
who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words,
Proverbs 12:18
A slanderous person pricketh like a sword; but a wise man's tongue is wholesome.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with unrighteousness; Your lips speak lies, and your tongue setteth out wickedness.
Jeremiah 9:3
They bend their tongues like bows, to shoot out lies: As for the truth, they may nothing away with all in the world. For they go from one wickedness to another, and hold nothing of me, sayeth the LORD.
James 3:6
and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell.
Like a serpent
Genesis 3:13
And the LORD God said unto the woman, "Wherefore didst thou so?" And the woman answered, "The serpent deceived me and I ate."
Proverbs 23:32
It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder.
Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye say well, when ye yourselves are evil? For of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear, lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, even so your wits should be corrupt from the singleness that is in Christ.
Adders
Psalm 58:4
They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,
Romans 3:13
"Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have deceived." "The poison of Asps is under their lips."
General references
Proverbs 25:18
Whoso beareth false witness against his neighbour, he is a very spear, a sword, and a sharp arrow.