Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence,

New American Standard Bible

They sharpen their tongues as a serpent;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

King James Version

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Holman Bible

They make their tongues
as sharp as a snake’s bite;
viper’s venom is under their lips.Selah

International Standard Version

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Interlude

A Conservative Version

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent. Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

American Standard Version

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders poison is under their lips. Selah

Amplified


They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

Darby Translation

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

King James 2000

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They sharpen their tongue as [sharp as] a snake's; [the] venom of a viper [is] under their lips. Selah

Modern King James verseion

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

NET Bible

Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper's venom is behind their lips. (Selah)

New Heart English Bible

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

The Emphasized Bible

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent, - The poison of the asp, is under their lips. Selah.

Webster

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips. Selah.

World English Bible

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

Youngs Literal Translation

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.

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Context Readings

Prayer For Rescue

2 Who reckoned evils in the heart; all the day they will gather together wars. 3 They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence, 4 Watch me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the unjust one; from the man of violences wilt thou guard me; who purposed to overthrow my steps.


Cross References

Psalm 58:4

Wrath to them according to the likeness of the wrath of a serpent: as the deaf adder will stop its ear;

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions: I shall lie down with the flaming, the sons of man, their teeth spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Genesis 3:13

And Jehovah God will say to the woman, What is this thou didst? And the woman will say, The serpent deceived me and I shall eat.

Psalm 52:2-3

Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they will gush out with their mouth: swords in their lips: for who heard?

Psalm 64:3-4

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:

Proverbs 12:18

There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.

Proverbs 23:32

Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper.

Isaiah 59:3-5

For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.

Isaiah 59:13

Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from after our God, speaking violence and apostasy, they conceived and muttered from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 9:5

And they will mock, a man upon his neighbor, and they will not speak the truth: they taught their tongue to speak falsehood, they wearied themselves to sin.

Matthew 12:34

O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks.

Romans 3:13-14

Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:

2 Corinthians 11:3

And I am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ.

James 3:6-8

(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.

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