Psalm 58:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Their poison is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder or asp that stops its ear,

American Standard Version (1901)

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

Common English Bible

Their venom is like a snake’s venom— like a deaf cobra’s—one that shuts its ears

Catholic Public Domain Version

For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

Psalm 58:4 Cross References

Genesis 3:2

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,

Genesis 8:21

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Job 20:14

yet their food is turned in their stomachs; it is the venom of asps within them.

Job 20:16

They will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill them.

Psalm 140:3

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

Psalm 51:7

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.

Isaiah 11:8

The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den.

Jeremiah 8:17

See, I am letting snakes loose among you, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the Lord.

Matthew 23:33

You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are opened graves; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of vipers is under their lips.”

Deuteronomy 32:33

their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

James 3:8

but no one can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison.