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How Nave’s arranged it

• A venomous serpentDeuteronomy 32:33Job 20:14Job 20:16Isaiah 11:8Romans 3:13
• Venom of, illustrates the speech of the wickedPsalms 140:3Romans 3:13
• Injurious effects of wineDeuteronomy 32:33Proverbs 23:32
• Deprived of venom, illustrates conversionIsaiah 11:8Isaiah 11:9

The passages, in Bible order (8)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 8 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Deuteronomy 32:33

   Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

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   “Their wine is the poison of dragons,.... Of these creatures, both land and sea dragons; see Gill on Mic 1:8; See Gill on Mal 1:3; Pliny says (l) the dragon has no poison in it; yet, as Dalechamp, in his notes on that writer observes, he in many places prescribes remedies against the bite of the dragon; but Heliodorus (m) expressly speaks of some archers, whose arrows were infected with the poison of dragons; and Leo Africanus (n) says, the Atlantic dragons are exceeding poisonous: and yet other writers (o) besides Pliny have asserted that they are free from poison.

   “Their wine - Their system of doctrines and teaching, is the poison of dragons, etc., fatal and destructive to all them who follow it.

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2. Job 20:14

   yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

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   “They have theories that are not sweet but as the gall of asps, that is, evil; and those theories come from the wine of their doctrine. "For their wine comes from the vine of Sodom." The gall of asps is in the belly of the heretics and those who declare impious dogmas contrary to truth.

   “Yet his meat in his bowels is turned,....

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3. Job 20:16

   He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

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   “Ver. 16. He shall suck the head of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. 19. The 'asp' is a small serpent, but the 'viper' hath more length of body. And asps produce eggs, and their young are hatched from the eggs. But when vipers have conceived, their 'young ravin in their womb, which bursting the parents' sides issue out of their bellies. Hence too it is called the 'viper,' because it is a 'parent by violence.'

   “He shall suck the poison of asps,....

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4. Psalms 140:3

   They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

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   “The venom of asps is under their lips. For they seem to have words of friendship, yet they are full of death-dealing poison.

   “They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent,.... Which Kimchi says it does before it bites. Aristotle (i) observes, that the tip or extreme point of a serpent's tongue is as small as a hair, and so exceeding sharp and piercing. Arama interprets this of the sharpness and cunning of the serpent; and particularly the serpent that deceived Eve, and spake cunningly to her.

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5. Proverbs 23:32

   In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

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   “At the last it biteth like a serpent,....

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6. Isaiah 11:8

   The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.

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   “Listen to how the flesh of God becomes an antidote: The Word became flesh; He put His hand into the den of vipers, He expelled the venom, He removed sin; that is, He condemned sin in the flesh.

   “And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp,.... Without fear or danger: and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den; and suffer no damage: the meaning is explained in the next words, and to be understood of regenerate persons, both of new born babes, or just born, and all such who are weaned from their own righteousness, and live by faith on Christ, who shall not be hurt by the poison of false teachers, nor by the force of violent persecutors, now no more, See Gill (Editor's note) on "Isa 11:6".

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7. Isaiah 11:9

   They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

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   “But now, to all the earth has gone forth their voice, and all the earth has been filled with the knowledge of God, and the disciples have made disciples of all the nations, and now is fulfilled what is written: "They shall be all taught of God." And then what was revealed was but a type; but now the truth has been manifested.

   “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,....

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8. Romans 3:13

   “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

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   Hence the threatening countenance, the lowering aspect, pallor in the face, trembling on the lips, gnashing of the teeth, mad words, unbridled revilings, a hand prompt for the violence of slaughter; even if for the time deprived of a sword, yet armed with the hatred of an infuriate mind. And accordingly the Holy Spirit says in the Psalms: "Be not jealous against him who walketh prosperously in his way." And again: "The wicked shall observe the righteous, and shall gnash upon him with his teeth. But God shall laugh at him; for He seeth that his day is coming."

   “Their throat is an open sepulchre,....

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