Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
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Gill's Exposition
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. These words are taken from Psa 10:7, by cursing is meant, cursing of God, which is sometimes internal with the heart, and sometimes external with the…
Barnes' Notes
Their throat ... - This expression is taken from Psa 5:9, literally from the Septuagint. The design of the psalm is to reprove those who were false, traitorous, slanderous, etc. Psa 5:6. The psalmist…
Adam Clarke
Their throat is an open sepulchre - This and all the following verses to the end of the 18th are found in the Septuagint, but not in the Hebrew text; and it is most evident that it was from this…
I. Here the apostle answers several objections, which might be made, to clear his way. No truth so plain and evident but wicked wits and corrupt carnal hearts will have something to say against it;…
Cambridge Bible
an open sepulchre Perhaps as "uttering abomination." "Emitting the noisome exhalations of a putrid heart (Bp Home on Psa 5:9).
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