Psalm 58:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

Genesis 8:21

And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Job 20:14

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

Job 20:16

He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.

Psalm 140:3

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. 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 serpent bite before it be charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

Isaiah 11:8

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den.

Jeremiah 8:17

For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

Matthew 23:33

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgement of hell?

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.

James 3:8

but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.