Their tongues are like poisonous snakes.\par It is like snake poison is under their tongue.\par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [638]})\i0 \par
James 3:8 - Easy To Read Version But no person can tame (control) the tongue. It is wild and evil. It is full of poison that can kill. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the human tongue can be tamed by no man. It is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison. American Standard Version (1901) but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison. Common English Bible No one can tame the tongue, though. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. Catholic Public Domain Version But no man is able to rule over the tongue, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison. |
Their tongues are like poisonous snakes.\par It is like snake poison is under their tongue.\par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [638]})\i0 \par
My enemies attack their own friends.\par They don’t do the things they agree to do.\par
My life is in danger.\par My enemies are all around me.\par They are like man-eating lions,\par with teeth as sharp as spears\par and arrows,\par and tongues as sharp as a sword.\par
Their anger is as dangerous\par as snake venom. {\cf2\super [341]} \par And, like cobras that can’t hear,\par they refuse to listen to the truth.\par
Listen to their threats and insults.\par They say such cruel things,\par and they don’t care who hears them.\par
A crooked person will not get a good profit. A liar will get into bad trouble.
A person might know how to control snakes. But that skill is useless if a snake bites someone when he is not around. \{Wisdom is like that.\}
“People’s mouths are like open graves;\par they use their tongues for telling lies.”\par \i (Psalm 5:9)\i0 \par
The tongue is like a fire. It is a world of evil among the parts of our body. How? The tongue spreads its evil through our whole body. It starts a fire that influences all of life. The tongue gets this fire from hell.
People can tame every kind of wild animal, bird, reptile, and fish. People have already tamed all these things.
The snake was thrown down out of heaven. (The giant snake is that old snake called the devil or Satan. He leads the whole world into the wrong way.) The snake with his angels were thrown to the earth.