Psalm 58:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Your words spread poison like the bite of a cobra

Cross References

Genesis 3:2

The woman answered, “God said we could eat fruit from any tree in the garden,

Genesis 8:21

The smell of the burning offering pleased God, and he said: Never again will I punish the earth for the sinful things its people do. All of them have evil thoughts from the time they are young, but I will never destroy everything that breathes, as I did this time.

Job 20:14

But their food will turn sour and poison their stomachs.

Job 20:16

They will die from the fangs of poisonous snakes

Psalm 140:3

Their words bite deep like the poisonous fangs of a snake.

Psalm 51:7

Wash me with hyssop until I am clean and whiter than snow.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

The power to charm a snake does you no good if it bites you anyway.

Isaiah 11:8

Little children will play near snake holes. They will stick their hands into dens of poisonous snakes and never be hurt.

Jeremiah 8:17

“Watch out!” the LORD says. “I'm sending poisonous snakes to attack you, and no one can stop them.”

Matthew 23:33

You are nothing but snakes and the children of snakes! How can you escape going to hell?

Matthew 3:7

Many Pharisees and Sadducees also came to be baptized. But John said to them: You snakes! Who warned you to run from the coming judgment?

Romans 3:13

Their words are like an open pit, and their tongues are good only for telling lies. Each word is as deadly as the fangs of a snake,

Deuteronomy 32:33

their wine is more deadly than cobra venom.

James 3:8

But our tongues get out of control. They are restless and evil, and always spreading deadly poison.