Psalms 58:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Psalms 58:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
James 3:8
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Ecclesiastes 10:11
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Job 20:16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

Topics

Adder Afflictions and Adversities Animals Charmers and Charming Deafness Depravity of Man Godlessness Heart

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

We have reason to think that this psalm refers to the malice of Saul and his janizaries against David, because it bears the same inscription (Al-taschith, and Michtam of David) with that which goes before and that which follows, both which appear, by the title, to have been penned with reference to that persecution through which God preserved him (Al-taschith—Destroy not), and therefore the psalms…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

3-5. describe the wicked generally, who sin naturally, easily, malignantly, and stubbornly.