They make their tongues as sharp as(A) a serpent’s;
    the poison of vipers(B) is on their lips.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 140:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 8.

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

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but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.(A)

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But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

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