³ They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s,
    and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah^(A)

⁴ They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
    like the deaf adder that stops its ear,^(A)

¹³ “Their throats are opened graves;
    they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of vipers is under their lips.”^(A)
14     “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

³² At the last it bites like a serpent
    and stings like an adder.

⁵ They all deceive their neighbors,
    and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongues to speak lies;
    they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.^[a](A)

³ They bend their tongues like bows;
    they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth,
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    and they do not know me, says the Lord.^(A)

³ For your hands are defiled with blood
    and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
    your tongue mutters wickedness.^(A)
4 No one brings suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas; they speak lies,
    conceiving mischief and bearing iniquity.^(B)
5 They hatch adders’ eggs
    and weave the spider’s web;
whoever eats their eggs dies,
    and the crushed egg hatches out a viper.^(C)