Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
WEB
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
YLT
Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
DBT
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.