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Poison
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
or Deuteronomy 32:33 (a) The terrible story in this verse is to reveal to us that the vine planted by our Lord, which should have produced lovely grapes, was really bringing forth poisonous liquor, such as the wickedness and evil of Sodom. GOD expected Israel to bring forth good grapes, fragrant flowers, and the sweet graces of Heaven. Instead of this, Israel produced hatred, idolatry and lust. See His description of this in isa5.
Job 6:4 (a) Job thus describes the sorrow of his heart and the distress of his spirit because of what he thought was GOD's wrath against him. He could not understand why GOD would thus deal with him when he knew very well he had lived a godly, consistent life. He did not know that his afflictions came from Satan.
Job 20:16 (a) Zophar is telling Job that the reason he is having all these sorrows is because he has been a wicked man. He is comparing Job's troubles to the poison of serpents, which was of course absolutely untrue.
Psalm 58:4 (a) This figure represents the evil words and teachings of the ungodly hypocrite. That which the hypocrite says and does influences for evil those who listen to him. It really refers to the teachings of false religious leaders. (See also Psalm 140:3).
Romans 3:13 (a) By this we understand that the messages that issued from the lips of ungodly teachers who are leaders of false religions are evil poison. He is also telling us that evil speaking of any kind only hurts, damages and injures those who hear such messages. (See also James 3:8).
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Watson, Walter. Entry for 'Poison'. Wilson's Dictoinary of Bible Types. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wdt/p/poison.html. 1957.
