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4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth{H8686)} her ear;
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They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
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?
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
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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 p…
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