(A)They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
    like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

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Their venom is like the venom of a snake,(A)
    like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

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They make (A)their tongue sharp as (B)a serpent's,
    and (C)under their lips is the (D)venom of asps. Selah

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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.

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

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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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11 If the serpent bites before it is (A)charmed,
    there is no advantage to the charmer.

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11 If a snake bites before it is charmed,
    the charmer receives no fee.(A)

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13 (A)“Their throat is (B)an open grave;
    they use their tongues to deceive.”
(C)“The venom of asps is under their lips.”

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13 “Their throats are open graves;
    their tongues practice deceit.”[a](A)
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:13 Psalm 5:9
  2. Romans 3:13 Psalm 140:3

33 You serpents, (A)you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to (B)hell?

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33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers!(A) How will you escape being condemned to hell?(B)

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But when he saw many of (A)the Pharisees and (B)Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, (C)“You brood of (D)vipers! Who warned you to flee from (E)the wrath to come?

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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers!(A) Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(B)

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17 For behold, I am sending among you (A)serpents,
    adders (B)that cannot be charmed,
    (C)and they shall bite you,”
declares the Lord.

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17 “See, I will send venomous snakes(A) among you,
    vipers that cannot be charmed,(B)
    and they will bite you,”
declares the Lord.

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The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
    and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

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The infant(A) will play near the cobra’s den,
    and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s(B) nest.

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16 He will suck the poison of cobras;
    (A)the tongue of a viper will kill him.

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16 He will suck the poison(A) of serpents;
    the fangs of an adder will kill him.(B)

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14 yet his food is turned in his stomach;
    it is the venom of (A)cobras within him.

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14 yet his food will turn sour in his stomach;(A)
    it will become the venom of serpents(B) within him.

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33 their wine is the poison of (A)serpents
    and the cruel venom of asps.

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33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
    the deadly poison of cobras.(A)

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