Psalm 140:3
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New International Version (©1984)
They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips. Selah

New Living Translation (©2007)
Their tongues sting like a snake; the venom of a viper drips from their lips. Interlude

English Standard Version (©2001)
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They sharpen their tongues as a serpent; Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake's [fang]. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes. [Selah]

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

American King James Version
They have sharpened their tongues 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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of saps is under their lips.

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

English Revised Version
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.

Geneva Study Bible

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

(c) He shows the weapons the wicked use, when power and force fail them.

Wesley's Notes

140:3 Tongues - Using words as sharp and piercing as the sting of a serpent.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. sharpened . like a serpent-not like a serpent does, but they are thus like a serpent in cunning and venom.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

140:1-7 The more danger appears, the more earnest we should be in prayer to God. All are safe whom the Lord protects. If he be for us, who can be against us? We should especially watch and pray, that the Lord would hold up our goings in his ways, that our footsteps slip not. God is as able to keep his people from secret fraud as from open force; and the experience we have had of his power and care, in dangers of one kind, may encourage us to depend upon him in other dangers.


Psalm 57:4 My soul is among lions; I must lie among those who breathe forth fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows And their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 58:4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
Psalm 64:3 Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,
Romans 3:13 "THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," "THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS";
James 3:8 But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. (NASB ©1995)

Adder Adders Adder's Lips Poison Selah Serpent Serpent's Sharp Sharpen Sharpened Snake Snakes Tongue Tongues Venom Viper Vipers Viper's

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

sharpened Ps 52:2,3 57:4 59:7 64:3,4 Pr 12:18 Isa 59:3-5,13 Jer 9:3,5 Jas 3:6-8

like a serpent Ge 3:13 Pr 23:32 Mt 12:34 2Co 11:3

adders Ps 58:4 Ro 3:13,14

Bible Gateway: Psalms Chapter 140 Verse 3 NIV ESV NKJV NLT KJV Message Amplified

Alphabetical: a as is lips make of on poison Selah serpent serpent's sharp sharpen the their They tongues under viper vipers

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