Psalms 139:4
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. The venom of asps is under their lips.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
In Context
3Those who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all day long they constructed conflicts.
Cross References
Job 38:2Who is this that wraps sentences in unskilled words?
Job 42:6Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.
Psalms 50:19A crushed spirit is a sacrifice to God. A contrite and humbled heart, O God, you will not spurn.
Zephaniah 1:12And this shall be in that time: I will scrutinize Jerusalem with lamps, and I will visit upon the men who have become stuck in the dregs, who say in their hearts, “The Lord will not do good, and he will not do evil.”
Matthew 12:35A good man offers good things from a good storehouse. And an evil man offers evil things from an evil storehouse.
James 1:26But if anyone considers himself to be religious, but he does not restrain his tongue, but instead seduces his own heart: such a one’s religion is vanity.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 139:2-7
The Omniscience of God. 1 O Lord , thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord , thou knowest it altogether. 5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. David here lays down this great doctrine,… Read the whole commentary →