They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
James 3:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 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. |
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, *For,* they say, *who hears us?*
One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.
*Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.* *The poison of vipers is under their lips;*
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehinnom.
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Hasatan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.