Romans 3:13
What people say [MTY] is foul/bad, like the smell that comes from a grave that has been {that people have} opened [MET]. By what people say [MTY], they deceive people. By what they say [MTY] they injure people, just like the poison of snakes injures people [MET].
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Job 20:14but some day the evil things that they enjoyed doing will become like food that they swallow and which becomes as bitter as snake venom.
Psalms 12:3Yahweh, we wish that you would cut off their tongues so that they cannot continue to boast.
Psalms 52:2All during the day you plan to get rid of others; what you say [MTY] injures others like a sharp razor [SIM], and you are always deceiving others.
Psalms 140:3By what they say [MTY] they injure people like poisonous snakes do; the words that they speak [MTY] can kill people as easily as cobras/vipers do. (Think about that!)
Jeremiah 5:16Their soldiers are all very strong, and the arrows from their quivers [MET] will ◄send many Israeli men to their graves/cause many Israeli people to die►.
Ezekiel 13:7They say that they have seen visions, but those visions are false, and the things that they prophesy are lies [RHQ]. They say, 'Yahweh told me this,' but I have told them nothing!”
Matthew Henry on Romans 3:2-19
The Advantages of the Jews; Objections Answered; The Depravity of Jews and Gentiles. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art… Read the whole commentary →