Psalms 58:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 140:3 : 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.
  • Eccl 10:11 : 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
  • Isa 11:8 : 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
  • Jer 8:17 : 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 ¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 [Ye] ‹serpents,› [ye] ‹generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?›
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:
  • Jas 3:8 : 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
  • Deut 32:33 : 33 Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
  • Job 20:14 : 14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
  • Job 20:16 : 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.

  • Rom 3:13-15
    3 verses
    80%

    13Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:

    14Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:

    15Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

  • 5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

  • 78%

    32For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter:

    33Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

    34[Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?

  • 32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

  • 16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

  • 11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

  • Isa 59:4-7
    4 verses
    73%

    4None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

    5They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

    6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.

    7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.

  • 3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

  • 17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

  • 72%

    9For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part [is] very wickedness; their throat [is] an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 64:3-5
    3 verses
    71%

    3Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:

    4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

    5They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

  • 8Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

  • 16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

  • 17They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any] breath in their mouths.

  • 8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

  • 8But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

  • 19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails [were] like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

  • 24[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

  • 12[For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak.

  • 16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  • Ps 64:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7¶ But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

    8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

  • 5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • 14[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.

  • 4¶ A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; [and] a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

  • 18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • 2For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • 3And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

  • 7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

  • 7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?

  • 18And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

  • 9[As for] the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • 15Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:

  • 12¶ They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • 16Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.

  • 4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • 3The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good.

  • 22¶ Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.

  • 8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

  • 28They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters.