Psalms 140:3
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
In Context
2Who devise mischiefs in [their] heart; every day are they banded together for war.
Cross References
Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
Psalms 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
Psalms 64:3Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, [and] have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
Proverbs 12:18There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:
Jeremiah 9:3And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 140:2-8
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Deliver me, O Lord , from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Keep me, O Lord , from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins… Read the whole commentary →