They have venom like the venom of a snake,
like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,(A)

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Their venom is like the venom of a snake,(A)
    like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

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13 Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.(A)[a]
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.(B)[b]

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13 “Their throats are open graves;
    their tongues practice deceit.”[a](A)
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:13 Psalm 5:9
  2. Romans 3:13 Psalm 140:3

but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.(A)

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but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.(A)

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