Ps Psalmen, Psalm Das Buch der Psalmen, Psalm 140
Psalms 140:4 in different translations
German
Luther
[140:3]
Sie schärfen ihre Zunge wie eine Schlange; Otterngift ist unter ihren Lippen. (Sela.)
ELO (modernisiert)
Sie schärfen ihre Zunge wie eine Schlange; Otterngift ist unter ihren Lippen. (Sela.)
NeÜ
Sie haben spitze Zungen wie die Schlangen, von ihren Lippen träufelt Natterngift.
English
KJV (66 books)
[140:3]
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
KJV (Cambridge) [140:3]
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; Adder’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
ASV
[140:3]
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah
DRA [139:4]
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of saps is under their lips.
GNV [140:3]
They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.
JPS [140:3]
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; vipers' venom is under their lips. Selah
LSV [140:3]
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, || Poison of a viper [is] under their lips. Selah.
NASB [140:3]
They sharpen their tongues like a snake; The venom of a viper is under their lips. Selah NASB 2020
NIV (US)
[140:3]
They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips.
NMV [140:3]
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison [is] under their lips. Selah [stop and diligently consider what was just said].
OJB
They have sharpened their leshonot like a nachash; the venom of a spider is under their sfatayim (lips). Selah
T4T [140:3]
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!)
WEB (US)
[140:3]
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.