(A)Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;
They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

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They sharpen their tongues like a serpent;
The (A)poison of asps is under their lips. Selah

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But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, (A)full of deadly poison.

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11 A serpent may bite (A)when it is not charmed;
The [a]babbler is no different.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 10:11 Lit. master of the tongue

13 “Their(A) throat is an open [a]tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;
(B)“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:13 grave

33 Serpents, (A)brood[a] of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:33 offspring

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

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17 “For behold, I will send serpents among you,
Vipers which cannot be (A)charmed,
And they shall bite you,” says the Lord.

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The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.

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16 He will suck the poison of cobras;
The viper’s tongue will slay him.

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14 Yet his food in his stomach turns sour;
It becomes cobra venom within him.

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33 Their wine is (A)the poison of serpents,
And the cruel (B)venom of cobras.

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