Psalm 140:3 - Revised Standard Version

³ They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the poison of vipers. Selah

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ They sharpen their tongues like a serpent's; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Rom. 3:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah

Common English Bible

³ They sharpen their tongues like a snake’s; spider poison is on their lips. Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.

Psalm 140:3 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:13

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.”

Psalm 57:4

I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Psalm 58:4

They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Psalm 59:7

There they are, bellowing with their mouths, and snarling with their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

Proverbs 12:18

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

Proverbs 6:14

with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.