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3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: …
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)In this , as in other things, David was a type of Christ, that he suffered before he reigned, was humbled before he was exalted, and that as there were many who loved and valued him, and sought to do him honour, so there were many who hated and envied him, and sought to do him mischief, as appears by these verses, where, I. He gives a character of his enemies, and paints them out in their own colo…
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