. There are many human anteaters,
Charles Spurgeon, Treasury of David. Their throat is an open
sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue, Psalm 5 9. Their
throat is an open sepulchre, that is, a sepulchre full of
loathsomeness, of pollution, of pestilence and death. But
worse than that, it is an open sepulchre, with all its evil
gases issuing forth to spread death and destruction all around. It is just so with the throat
of the wicked. It would be a great mercy if
the mouth of the wicked could always be closed, if we could
seal it in continual silence. It would be like a closed sepulchre
and would not produce much mischief. But the throat is an open sepulchre. Consequently, all the wickedness
of their heart exhales and comes forth. How dangerous is an open
sepulchre! Men, in their journeys, might
easily stumble therein and find themselves among the dead. Ah,
take heed of the wicked man, for there is nothing that he
will not say to ruin you. He will long to destroy your
character and bury you in the hideous sepulchre of his own
wicked throat. This figure graphically portrays
the filthy conversation of the wicked. Nothing can be more abominable
than an open sepulchre, when a dead, putrefying body steams
forth its tainted exhalations. Just so, what proceeds out of
the mouth of the wicked is infected and putrid. And, as the exhalation
from a sepulchre proves the corruption within, so it is with the corrupt
conversation of sinners. Robert Haldane. The speech of
unregenerate men is unsavoury, rotten, and hurtful to others. For as a sepulchre sends out
detestable savours and filthy smells, so evil men utter rotten
and filthy words. —Thomas Wilson They flatter with
their tongue, or as we might read it, they have an oily tongue,
a smooth tongue. A smooth tongue is a great evil. Many have been bewitched by it.
There are many human anteaters who with their long tongues covered
with oily words entice and entrap the unwary and make their gain
thereby. When the wolf licks the lamb,
he is preparing to wet his teeth in its blood.
