James 3:8

¹³“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.”“The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

³They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.

²¹His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

⁶And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

⁴My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

³who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, ⁴to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

⁷Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

⁴Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

¹¹If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

³³Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.