Ecclesiastes 10:11

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

If a serpent biteth, it biteth in silence; he that backbiteth privily, hath nothing less than it.

Cross References

Psalm 52:2

All day thy tongue thought unright-fulness; as a sharp razor thou hast done guile [or treachery].

Psalm 58:6

God shall all-break the teeth of them in their mouth; the Lord shall break altogether the great teeth of lions.

Psalm 64:3

For they sharpened their tongues as a sword, they bend their bow, a bitter thing;

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life be in the works of [the] tongue; they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If iron is folded again, and it is not as before, but is made blunt, it shall be made sharp with much travail; and wisdom shall follow after busyness.

Jeremiah 8:17

For lo! I shall send to you the worst serpents, to which is no charming; and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

James 3:6

And our tongue is fire, the university of wickedness. The tongue is ordained in our members, which defouleth all the body; and it is enflamed, [or set afire], of hell, and enflameth the wheel of our birth.

James 3:8

but no man may chastise the tongue, for it is an unpeaceable evil, and full of deadly venom.