They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
⛓ Read Psalm 140 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Catena member at 3:13b: 'The poison of asps/vipers is under their lips' = LXX Psalm 139:4, verbatim. Continues the speech catalogue from lips.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's; adder's poison is under their lips' stands behind James's 'full of deadly poison.' The pairing of the tongue with serpent venom is rare enough to mark a genuine echo.
High confidence