Psalm 58:4
New International Version
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

New Living Translation
They spit venom like deadly snakes; they are like cobras that refuse to listen,

English Standard Version
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Berean Standard Bible
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

King James Bible
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

New King James Version
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

New American Standard Bible
They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

NASB 1995
They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

NASB 1977
They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

Legacy Standard Bible
They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

Amplified Bible
Their poison is like the venom of a serpent; They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,

Christian Standard Bible
They have venom like the venom of a snake, like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They have venom like the venom of a snake, like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

American Standard Version
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Their venom is like a snake's or that of a cockatrice, or like a deaf asp that covers its ears.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

Contemporary English Version
Your words spread poison like the bite of a cobra

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

English Revised Version
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They have poisonous venom like snakes. They are like a deaf cobra that shuts its ears

Good News Translation
They are full of poison like snakes; they stop up their ears like a deaf cobra,

International Standard Version
Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; They are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;

Literal Standard Version
Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, | As a deaf cobra shutting its ear,

Majority Standard Bible
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

New American Bible
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a serpent stopping its ears,

NET Bible
Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear,

New Revised Standard Version
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

New Heart English Bible
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; like a deaf viper that stops its ear,

Webster's Bible Translation
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

World English Bible
Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Young's Literal Translation
Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

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Context
God Judges the Earth
3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth. 4Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears, 5refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

Psalm 140:3
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Ecclesiastes 10:11
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.

Jeremiah 8:17
"For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 19:15
"This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.'"

Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.


Treasury of Scripture

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

poison

Psalm 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Ecclesiastes 10:11
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

like [heb.

Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 23:33
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

the deaf

Jeremiah 8:17
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

adder or asp.

Job 20:14,16
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him…

Isaiah 11:8
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

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Psalm 58
1. David reproves wicked judges
3. describes the nature of the wicked
6. devotes them to God's judgments
10. whereat the righteous shall rejoice














(4) Their poison . . .--Better, they have a venom like, &c. The term for serpent is the generic n?chash.

The most forcible images of determined wickedness, and of the destruction it entails, now follow. The first is supplied by the serpent, the more suggestive from the accumulated evil qualities of which that animal has from the first been considered the type. Here the figure is heightened, since the animal is supposed to have been first tamed, but suddenly darts forth its fangs, and shows itself not only untamed, but untameable.

Adder.--Heb., pethen, translated asp in Deuteronomy 32:33; Job 20:14; Isaiah 11:8 (and here by the LXX.) In the Bible Educator iv. 103, the pethen is identified with the Egyptian cobra, the species upon which the serpent charmers practise their peculiar science.

Deaf.--So Jeremiah 8:17 refers to various kinds of serpents that "will not be charmed." Here, however, it would seem as if the poet were thinking of some individual of a species, generally tractable, that obstinately resists the spells and incantations of the charmer. . . .

Verse 4. - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent (comp. Psalm 140:3; Song of Sirach 25:15). They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear. The "adder" was supposed to be deaf, on account of its being very difficult to charm. It was thought obstinately to set itself against the charmer, and, as it were, stop its ears against him.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Their venom
חֲמַת־ (ḥă·maṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 2534: Heat, anger, poison

[is] like
כִּדְמ֥וּת (kiḏ·mūṯ)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1823: Resemblance, model, shape, like

the poison
חֲמַת־ (ḥă·maṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 2534: Heat, anger, poison

of a serpent,
נָחָ֑שׁ (nā·ḥāš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5175: A serpent

like
כְּמוֹ־ (kə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's 3644: Like, as, when

a cobra
פֶ֥תֶן (p̄e·ṯen)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6620: (a venomous serpent) perhaps cobra

that shuts
חֵ֝רֵ֗שׁ (ḥê·rêš)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2795: Deaf

its ears,
אָזְנֽוֹ׃ (’ā·zə·nōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 241: Broadness, the ear


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