Ecclesiastes 10:11 - The Scriptures 2009

¹¹ If the snake bites without enchantment, then ‘the master of the tongue’ is no better!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ 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)

¹¹ If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

Common English Bible

¹¹ If a snake bites before it’s charmed, then there’s no profit for the snake charmer.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Whoever slanders in secret is nothing less than a snake that bites silently.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Ecclesiastes 10:11 Cross References

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalm 58:6

O Elohim, break their teeth in their mouth! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O יהוה!

Psalm 64:3

Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, a bitter word,

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

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.

Jeremiah 8:17

“For look, I am sending among you serpents, adders, which have no enchanter, and they shall bite you,” declares יהוה.

James 3:6

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.

James 3:8

But no man is able to tame the tongue. It is unruly, evil, filled with deadly poison.