Psalms 58:4

In 11 translations

BSB

Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

KJV

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;like the poison: Heb. according to the likeness, etcadder: or, asp

WEB

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

ASV

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

LSV

Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, || As a deaf cobra shutting its ear,

YLT

Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

DBY

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;

DRC57:5

Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

GNV

Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.

JPS58:5

Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;

LXXE57:5

Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

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Original-language editions

WLC58:5

חֲמַת־לָ֗מוֹ כִּדְמ֥וּת חֲמַת־נָחָ֑שׁ כְּמוֹ־פֶ֥תֶן חֵ֝רֵ֗שׁ יַאְטֵ֥ם אָזְנֽוֹ׃KJV:Ps.58.4

LXX-Br57:5

Θυμὸς αὐτοῖς κατὰ τὴν ὁμοίωσιν τοῦ ὄφεως, ὡσεὶ ἀσπίδος κωφῆς, καὶ βυούσης τὰ ὦτα αὐτῆς,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• James 3:8but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
• Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
• Jeremiah 8:17“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
• Ecclesiastes 10:11If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
• Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
• Job 20:16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
• Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
• Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
• Isaiah 11:8The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
• Job 20:14yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
• Matthew 23:33You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

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