Psalm 58:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ 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)

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

Common English Bible

⁴ Their venom is like a snake’s venom— like a deaf cobra’s—one that shuts its ears

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me.

Psalm 58:4 Cross References

Genesis 3:2

And the woman said to the serpent, “We are to eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,

Genesis 8:21

And יהוה  smelled a soothing fragrance, and יהוה  said in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again smite all living creatures, as I have done,

Job 20:14

his food is turned in his stomach, the bitterness of cobras is in him.

Job 20:16

He sucks the poison of cobras; the tongue of the poisonous snake slays him.

Psalm 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like a snake; The poison of cobras is under their lips. Selah.

Psalm 51:7

Cleanse me with hyssop, and I am clean; Wash me, and I am whiter than snow.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

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

Isaiah 11:8

And the nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the adder’s den.

Jeremiah 8:17

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

Matthew 23:33

“Serpents, brood of adders! How would you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Matthew 3:7

And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, “Brood of adders! Who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open tomb, with their tongues they have deceived,” “The poison of adders is under their lips,”

Deuteronomy 32:33

“Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the fierce venom of cobras.

James 3:8

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