Ecclesiastes 10:11 - King James 2000

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If the serpent bites before it is charmed, then it is no use to call a charmer [and the slanderer is no better than the uncharmed snake].

American Standard Version (1901)

If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

Common English Bible

If a snake bites before it’s charmed, then there’s no profit for the snake charmer.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever slanders in secret is nothing less than a snake that bites silently.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

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Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 58:6

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

Psalm 64:3

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the iron is blunt, and he does not sharpen the edge, then must he use more strength: but wisdom helps one to succeed.

Jeremiah 8:17

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

James 3:8

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.