Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Ecclesiastes 10:11 - The Scriptures 2009 If the snake bites without enchantment, then ‘the master of the tongue’ is no better! Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If the serpent bites before it is charmed, then it is no use to call a charmer [and the slanderer is no better than the uncharmed snake]. American Standard Version (1901) If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer. Common English Bible If a snake bites before it’s charmed, then there’s no profit for the snake charmer. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever slanders in secret is nothing less than a snake that bites silently. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly. |
Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
O Elohim, break their teeth in their mouth! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O יהוה!
Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, a bitter word,
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
If an iron tool is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, then he needs more strength, and wisdom is advantageous to make right.
“For look, I am sending among you serpents, adders, which have no enchanter, and they shall bite you,” declares יהוה.
And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by GĕHinnom.
But no man is able to tame the tongue. It is unruly, evil, filled with deadly poison.