you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
Ecclesiastes 10:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer. More versionsKing 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. |
you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
If the iron is blunt, and one does not whet the edge, he must put forth more strength; but wisdom helps one to succeed.
For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you,” says the Lord.
And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.
but no human being can tame the tongue—a restless evil, full of deadly poison.