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OET-LV [fn] they_sharpen tongues_their like a_snake [the]_venom of_a_viper [is]_under lips_their Selah.
140:4 Note: KJB: Ps.140.3
UHB 4 שָֽׁנֲנ֣וּ לְשׁוֹנָם֮ כְּֽמוֹ־נָ֫חָ֥שׁ חֲמַ֥ת עַכְשׁ֑וּב תַּ֖חַת שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ סֶֽלָה׃ ‡
(4 shānₐnū ləshōnām ⱪəmō-nāḩāsh ḩₐmat ˊakshūⱱ taḩat səfātēymō şelāh.)
Key: yellow:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT Their tongues pierce like a serpent;
⇔ vipers’ poison is on their lips. Selah
UST By what they say, they injure people as poisonous snakes do.
BSB They sharpen their tongues like snakes;
⇔ the venom of vipers is on their lips.[fn]
⇔ Selah
140:3 Cited in Romans 3:13
OEB who make their tongue as sharp as a serpent’s,
⇔ and under whose lips is the poison of adders. Selah
WEB They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.
⇔ Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
NET Their tongues wound like a serpent;
⇔ a viper’s venom is behind their lips. (Selah)
LSV They sharpened their tongue as a serpent,
Poison of a viper [is] under their lips. Selah.
FBV Their tongues are as sharp as those of snakes; viper's venom is on their lips. Selah.
T4T By what they say [MTY] they injure people like poisonous snakes do;
⇔ the words that they speak [MTY] can kill people as easily as cobras/vipers do.
⇔ (Think about that!)
LEB • sharp as a snake’s; the venom of a viper is under their lips.Selah
BBE Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
MOF their tongue sharp as a snake,
⇔ with venom of vipers on their lips.
JPS (140-4) They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; vipers' venom is under their lips. Selah
ASV They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent;
⇔ Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah
DRA Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
YLT They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder [is] under their lips. Selah.
DBY They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
RV They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah
WBS They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips. Selah.
KJB They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
(They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah. )
BB They haue sharpened their tongue lyke a serpent: Adders poyson is vnder their lippes. Selah.
(They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent: Adders poyson is under their lippes. Selah.)
GNV They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.
(They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is under their lips. Selah. )
CB They sharpen their tonges like a serpent, Adders poyson is vnder their lippes.
(They sharpen their tonges like a serpent, Adders poyson is under their lippes.)
WYC Lord, sette thou a keping to my mouth; and a dore of stonding aboute to my lippis.
(Lord, set thou/you a keping to my mouth; and a door of stonding about to my lippis.)
LUT die Böses gedenken in ihrem Herzen und täglich Krieg erregen.
(die Böses gedenken in ihrem Herzen and daily Krieg erregen.)
CLV Pone, Domine, custodiam ori meo, et ostium circumstantiæ labiis meis.[fn]
(Pone, Domine, custodiam ori meo, and ostium circumstantiæ labiis meis.)
140.3 Pone, Domine, custodiam. Nota, quod et cordi et ori petit apponi custodiam: duplici munimine opus est, ut nec cogitatio iniqua sapiat, nec prava voluntas in fatua verba erumpat. Ostium. AUG. A similitudine illius qui circumstat ostium, ne intret, vel exeat, cui non licet.
140.3 Pone, Domine, custodiam. Nota, that and cordi and ori petit apponi custodiam: duplici munimine opus it_is, as but_not cogitatio iniqua sapiat, but_not prava voluntas in fatua verba erumpat. Ostium. AUG. A similitudine illius who circumstat ostium, ne intret, or exeat, cui not/no licet.
BRN Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a [fn]strong door about my lips.
140:3 Lit. a door of fortification.
BrLXX Θοῦ, Κύριε, φυλακὴν τῷ στόματί μου, καὶ θύραν περιοχῆς περὶ τὰ χείλη μου.
(Thou, Kurie, fulakaʸn tōi stomati mou, kai thuran perioⱪaʸs peri ta ⱪeilaʸ mou. )
140:3 sting like a snake . . . a viper: These creatures depict the wicked as very corrupt people (see Prov 23:32; Isa 14:29; Rom 3:13).
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
Their tongues wound like serpents
(Some words not found in UHB: which/who plan evil in/on/at/with,hearts all/each/any/every day stir_up wars )
People who cause conflict by what they say are spoken of as if they had tongues of serpents. Of course, snakes do not do damage with their tongues, but with their bites and especially with poison. Neither can a person make his tongue sharp. Instead, here the idea of a sharp tongue stands for speaking in a way to cause trouble. And the idea the snakes have sharp tongues stands for the fact that many of them have poison.