Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

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.

Julia Smith Translation

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

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 imagine evil in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my paths.


Cross References

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops its ear;

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Genesis 3:13

And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Psalm 52:2-3

Your tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they bellow out with their mouths: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?

Psalm 64:3-4

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Proverbs 12:18

There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

Isaiah 59:3-5

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

Isaiah 59:13

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:5

And they will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Matthew 12:34

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

Romans 3:13-14

Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

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