Ecclesiastes 10:11
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Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
In other translations
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Psalm 58:4-54 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears, 5 refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.
- Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
- Psalm 64:3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
- Psalm 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- James 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
- Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
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