KJV King James Version
Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
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Psalm 58:4
Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
WEB World English Bible
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
ASV American Standard Version
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
Surrounding context — Psalm 58
1 To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
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Psalm 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison [is] under their lips. Selah.James 3:8But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.Ecclesiastes 10:11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.Romans 3:13Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.Job 20:14[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.Matthew 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?Matthew 23:33[Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?Isaiah 11:8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
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