Psalms 58:4 · 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, etc} {adder: or, asp}”
— Psalms 58:4
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. {as soon...: Heb. from the belly}
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. {charming...: or, be the charmer never so cunning}
Psalms 58 — Context
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. {as soon...: Heb. from the belly}
4Their 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, etc} {adder: or, asp}
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. {charming...: or, be the charmer never so cunning}
6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Cross References
James 3:8
But the tongue can no man tame; {it is} an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison {is} under their lips. Selah.
Romans 3:13
Their throat {is} an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps {is} under their lips:
Ecclesiastes 10:11
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. {a babbler: Heb. the master of the tongue}
Jeremiah 8:17
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which {will} not {be} charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
Matthew 3:7
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?
Job 20:16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Job 20:14
{Yet} his meat in his bowels is turned, {it is} the gall of asps within him.