Ecclesiastes 10:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Psalm 52:2

you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

Psalm 58:6

O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the iron is blunt, and one does not whet the edge, he must put forth more strength; but wisdom helps one to succeed.

Jeremiah 8:17

For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you,” says the Lord.

James 3:6

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.

James 3:8

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