Psa 58 | TSK | STEP | David reproves wicked judges; describes the nature of the wicked; devotes them to God's judgments; whereat the righteous shall rejoice. (Title.) {Al-taschith.} or, Destroy not. A golden Psalm. Do. O congregation. O ye.

adder or asp.{Pethen,} is no doubt the {boeten} of the Arabians, which M. Forskal describes as spotted with black and white, about one foot in length, nearly half an inch thick, oviparous, and its bite almost instant death. It is the aspic of the ancients, and is so called the literati of Cyprus, though the common people call it [kouphe,] deaf.

Job 20:14,16; Isa 11:8

Which.That serpents might be charmed or rendered harmless was well known to the ancients. Virgil, and many others state the fact:--{Frigidus in pratis cantando, rumpitur anguis.} "In the meadows the cold snake is burst by incantation."

charming never so wisely. or, be the charmer never socunning.

De 18:11; Isa 19:3

Break their.

3:7; 10:15; Job 4:10,11; 29:17; Eze 30:21-26

young.

17:12; 91:13; Nu 23:24; Isa 31:4; Ho 5:14; Mic 5:8

22:14; 64:7,8; 112:10; Ex 15:15; Jos 2:9-11; 7:5; 2Sa 17:10

Isa 13:7

a snail.--{Shabbelool,} in Chaldee {tivlala,} the snail, is probably so called from the Arabic {balla,} to wet, moisten, because of the glutinous slime emitted from its body, by which it appears to waste itself away in its own motion; and in the same manner the wicked prove their own destruction.

pass.

37:35,36; Mt 24:35; Jas 1:10

untimely.

Job 3:16; Ec 6:3

thorns.

118:12; Ec 7:6

as.

10:2,5; 55:23; 73:18-20; Job 18:18; 20:5-29; Pr 1:27; 10:25; 14:32

Isa 17:13; 40:24; Jer 23:19

both living, etc. Heb. as living as wrath.

Nu 16:30

righteous.