Psalms 58:4

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Their poison <FI>is<Fi> as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 58:4 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 3:2The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
  2. Genesis 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
  3. Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
  4. Job 20:14yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
  5. Job 20:16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
  6. Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
  7. Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
  8. Ecclesiastes 10:11If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
  9. Isaiah 11:8The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
  10. Jeremiah 8:17“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
  11. 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?
  12. Matthew 23:33You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
  13. Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
  14. James 3:8but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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