Psalm 140:3 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

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

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; vipers' venom is under their lips. Selah

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Psalm 140:3 Cross References

XREF:

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)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

140:3 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.

WES:

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

MHC:

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.

CONC:

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

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