New Living Translation
If a snake bites before you charm it, what’s the use of being a snake charmer?

American Standard Version
If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

Berean Study Bible
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

English Revised Version
If the serpent bite before it be charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

King James Bible
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

World English Bible
If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.

Young's Literal Translation
If the serpent biteth without enchantment, Then there is no advantage to a master of the tongue.

Ecclesiastes 10:11 Additional Translations ...