Psalms 58:5

Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

In Context

4The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

6Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.

Isaiah 19:3And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 58:2-6

A Reproof to Wicked Judges. 1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. We have reason to think that this… Read the whole commentary →

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