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Romans 3:13
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Gross things come from their mouth, like the smell from a rotting corpse. Their tongues are addicted to lies. Venom slips from their lips.
"THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," "THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS";
"Their throat is an open tomb,With their tongues they keep deceiving,""The poison of asps is under their lips";
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison [is] under their lips:
"Their throat is an open tomb;With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; Psalms 5:9 ">[fn] "The poison of asps is under their lips"; Psalms 140:3 ">[fn]
Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers' venom is under their lips.
"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips.
"Their throats resemble an opened grave; with their tongues they have been talking deceitfully." "The venom of vipers lies hidden behind their lips."
Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue vsed deceit, the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes:
"Their throat is a tomb being opened;" "they used deceit with their tongues; the poison of asps is under their lips;
Their throte is an open sepulcre, with their tunges they haue disceaued, the poyson off Aspes is vnder their lippes.
their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
"THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE; THEY [habitually] DECEIVE WITH THEIR TONGUES." "THE VENOM OF ASPS IS BENEATH THEIR LIPS."
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
"Their throat is an open grave, they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."
Their throte is an open sepulchre with their tounges they have disceaved: the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes.
Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
Their throat [is] an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:
A sepulchre opened [is] their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps [is] under their lips.
"Their throats are like open graves; they use their tongues for telling lies." Psalm 5:9 "Their words are like snake poison." Psalm 140:3
" Their throats are open graves , they deceive with their tongues , the poison of asps is under their lips ."
Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The venom of vipers is on their lips.
Their words are like an open pit, and their tongues are good only for telling lies. Each word is as deadly as the fangs of a snake,
"Their throats are open graves, they use their tongues to deceive. Vipers' venom is under their lips.
"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."
Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.
Their throats are like open sepulchres; their tongues are deceitful; the venom of asps is under their lips.
"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
Their throats are open graves.Psalm 5:9; 140:3; Jeremiah 5:16;">[xr] With their tongues they practice deception.Psalm 5:9">[fn] The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.Psalm 140:3">[fn]
Open sepulchres are their throats, Their tongues have deceived, And the venom of asps is under their lips.
Their throats are open sepulchres, and their tongues treacherous; and the venom of the asp is under their lips.
"Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave. Their tongues are filled with lies." "Snake venom drips from their lips."
Their mouth is like an open grave. They tell lies with their tongues. Whatever they say is like the poison of snakes.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
"Their throats are opened graves; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of vipers is under their lips."
A sepulchre opened, is their throat, with their tongues, have they used deceit, the poison of asps, is under their lips,
Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.
Their throat is an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps is under their lips,
Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes.
"Their words come from mouths that are like open graves. They use their lying tongues to deceive others." "Their words are like the poison of snakes."
"THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," "THE VENOM OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS";
Their words are full of deadly deceit; wicked lies roll off their tongues, and dangerous threats, like snake's poison, from their lips;
The throte of hem is an opyn sepulcre; with her tungis thei diden gilefuli; the venym of snakis is vndur her lippis.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
throat: Psalms 5:9, Jeremiah 5:16, Matthew 23:27, Matthew 23:28
with their: Romans 3:4, Psalms 5:9, Psalms 12:3, Psalms 12:4, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 52:2, Psalms 57:4, Isaiah 59:3, Jeremiah 9:3-5, Ezekiel 13:7, Matthew 12:34, Matthew 12:35, James 3:5-8
the poison: Deuteronomy 32:33, Job 20:14-16, Psalms 140:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 3:15 - enmity Leviticus 11:13 - the eagle 1 Kings 20:7 - seeketh mischief Job 20:16 - the poison Psalms 10:7 - and deceit Psalms 50:19 - tongue Psalms 58:4 - poison Psalms 91:13 - adder Proverbs 1:12 - as the Micah 6:12 - spoken Matthew 15:11 - but Luke 6:45 - and an Ephesians 4:29 - no 1 Timothy 3:8 - doubletongued James 3:6 - a world James 3:8 - full Revelation 13:6 - he opened
Cross-References
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?
Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Their throat is an open sepulchre,.... The several vices of the instruments of speech are here, and in the following verse, exposed: "the throat" is said to "be an open sepulchre", as in Psalms 5:9, so called, for its voracity and insatiableness; both as an instrument of speech, for the words of the wicked are devouring ones; and as an instrument of swallowing, and so may denote the sinner's eager desire after sin, the delight and pleasure he takes in it, the abundance of it he takes in, and his insatiable greediness for it; likewise for its filthy stench, the communication of evil men being corrupt; and because, as by an open grave, persons may fall unawares to their hurt, so the evil communications of wicked men, as they corrupt good manners, are dangerous and hurtful: R. Aben Ezra explains it by
אסון מיד, "immediate destruction", or sudden death:
with their tongues they have used deceit; which may design the sin of flattery, for the words in Psalms 5:9; the place referred to, are, "they flatter with their tongue"; either God or men, themselves or others, their princes or their neighbour; for there are flatterers in things sacred and civil, there are self-flatterers, court flatterers, and flattering preachers, and all abominable and mischievous; or the phrase may design the sin of lying, either politically, officiously, perniciously, and religiously; and in this latter way, either with respect to doctrine or practice:
the poison of asps is under their lips; or as in Psalms 140:3, "adders' poison is under their lips". The asp is but a small creature, and so is the tongue, James 3:5, but there is a world of mischief in it, signified by poison; which, as that, is latent and secret, is under it; and as that stupefies and kills insensibly, so an evil tongue does, and that in a deadly and incurable manner: oftentimes the Jews speak of the evil imagination, or corruption of nature entering into persons, and operating in them, כארס בכעוס "as poison in an angry serpent" w.
w T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 62. 2. Yoma, fol. 9. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Their throat ... - This expression is taken from Psalms 5:9, literally from the Septuagint. The design of the psalm is to reprove those who were false, traitorous, slanderous, etc. Psalms 5:6. The psalmist has the sin of deceit, and falsehood, and slander particularly in his eye. The expressions here are to be interpreted in accordance with that. The sentiment here may be, as the grave is ever open to receive all into it, that is, into destruction, so the mouth or the throat of the slanderer is ever open to swallow up the peace and happiness of all. Or it may mean, as from an open sepulchre there proceeds an offensive and pestilential vapor, so from the mouths of slanderous persons there proceed noisome and ruinous words. “(Stuart.)” I think the connection demands the former interpretation.
With their tongues ... - In their conversation, their promises, etc., they have been false, treacherous, and unfaithful.
The poison of asps - This is taken literally from the Septuagint of Psalms 140:3. The asp, or adder, is a species of serpent whose poison is of such active operation that it kills almost the instant that it penetrates, and that without remedy. It is small, and commonly lies concealed, often in the “sand” in a road, and strikes the traveler before he sees it. It is found chiefly in Egypt and Lybia. It is said by ancient writers that the celebrated Cleopatra, rather than be carried a captive to Rome by Augustus, suffered an asp to bite her in the arm, by which she soon died. The precise species of serpent which is here meant by the psalmist, however, cannot be ascertained. All that is necessary to understand the passage is, that it refers to a serpent whose bite was deadly, and rapid in its execution.
Is under their lips - The poison of the serpent is contained in a small bag which is concealed at the root of the tooth. When the tooth is struck into the flesh, the poison is pressed out, through a small hole in the tooth, into the wound. Whether the psalmist was acquainted with that fact, or referred to it, cannot be known: his words do not of necessity imply it. The sentiment is, that as the poison of the asp is rapid, certain, spreading quickly through the system, and producing death; so the words of the slanderer are deadly, pestiferous, quickly destroying the reputation and happiness of man. They are as subtle, as insinuating, and as deadly to the reputation, as the poison of the adder is to the body. Wicked people in the Bible are often compared to serpents; Matthew 23:33; Genesis 49:17.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 3:13. Their throat is an open sepulchre — This and all the following verses to the end of the 18th Romans 3:13-18 are found in the Septuagint, but not in the Hebrew text; and it is most evident that it was from this version that the apostle quoted, as the verses cannot be found in any other place with so near an approximation to the apostle's meaning and words. The verses in question, however, are not found in the Alexandrian MS. But they exist in the Vulgate, the AEthiopic, and the Arabic. As the most ancient copies of the Septuagint do not contain these verses, some contend that the apostle has quoted them from different parts of Scripture; and later transcribers of the Septuagint, finding that the 10th, 11th, and 12th, verses were quoted from the xivth Psalm, Psalms 14:3 imagined that the rest were found originally there too, and so incorporated them in their copies, from the apostle's text.
Their throat is an open sepulchre-By their malicious and wicked words they bury, as it were, the reputation of all men. The whole of this verse appears to belong to their habit of lying, defamation, slandering, &c., by which they wounded, blasted, and poisoned the reputation of others.
