Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Romans 3:14
Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:
Whose mouth – Psa 10:7. The apostle has not quoted this literally, but has given the sense. David in the psalm is describing his bitter enemies.
Cursing – Reproachful and opprobrious language, such as Shimei used in relation to David; 2Sa 16:5, 2Sa 16:7-8.
Bitterness – In the psalm, deceits. The word bitterness is used to denote severity, harshness, cruelty; reproachful and malicious words.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. Whose mouth is full of cursing, &c.] They never speak but in profane oaths, blasphemies, and malice.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
This last and very plain expression of the corruption of the tongue, is taken out of Psa 10:7; See Poole on “Psa 10:7“.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. Whose mouth, &c. (Ps10:7): that is, “That mouth which should be ‘most sweet’ (So5:16), being ‘set on fire of hell’ (Jas3:6), is filled with burning wrath against those whom it shouldonly bless.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. These words are taken from Ps 10:7, by cursing is meant, cursing of God, which is sometimes internal with the heart, and sometimes external with the mouth, as here; and of all good men, though without cause, and to no purpose with respect to the persons they curse, since God has blessed them, and they are blessed, and greatly to their own detriment, for, in the issue, their curses will be turned against themselves. There is also a cursing of superiors, as parents, masters, magistrates, kings, and governors; which is a sore evil, and attended with bad consequences; likewise of themselves, and their fellow creatures: and “the mouth [being] full [of it]”, denotes the frequency of the sin; scarce anything else comes out of it but cursing; which discovers the sad corruption of the heart; “for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh”, Mt 12:34. By “bitterness” is meant, either sin in general, which is “an evil and bitter [thing]”, Jer 2:19, in its nature and effects; or sinful words, such as oaths, curses, imprecations, all wrathful and deceitful words.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1) “Whose mouth,” (hon to stoma) “Of whom the mouth,” the overflow and projection of what is in the heart, center of their affections, Mat 12:34; gives off cursing and blessing even in the saved, Jas 3:10.
2) “Is full of cursing and bitterness,” (apas kai pikrias gemei) “is full of cursing and bitterness,” or cursing, deceit, fraud, censorious, uncharitable, reproachful, sarcastic things, Psa 10:7; Psa 109:17-18; mischief and vanity are in all his conversations, Pro 29:24.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
14. Then he says, that their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness (101) — a vice of an opposite character to the former; but the meaning is, that they are in every way full of wickedness; for if they speak fair, they deceive and blend poison with their flatteries; but if they draw forth what they have in their hearts, bitterness and cursing stream out.
(101) Psa 10:7. Paul corrects the order of the words as found in the Septuagint, and gives the Hebrew more exactly, but retains the word “bitterness,” by which the Septuagint have rendered מרמות, which means deceit, or rather, mischievous deceit. Some think that it ought to be מררות, “bitterness;” but there is no copy in its favor. — Ed.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(14) Bitterness.Malignity; from the notion that venom was contained in the gall. (Comp. Act. 8:23.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Ver. 14. Full ] , As a ship that hath its full freight and lading.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Rom 3:14 . Ps. 9:28, LXX, freely quoted: (Psa 10:7 , A.V.). after (W. and H., margin) is a Hebrew idiom which the LXX has in this passage, only in the singular: .
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
Whose mouth, &c. Compare Psa 10:7.
full. Greek. gemo. Compare Mat 23:25, Mat 23:27.
cursing and bitterness = bitter imprecations. Figure of speech Hendiadys. App-6.
cursing. Greek. ara. Only here. Properly a prayer, but commonly a prayer for evil, an imprecation.
bitterness. Greek. pikria. See Act 8:23.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Rom 3:14. ) Psa 10:7, LXX., .- , the mouth) In this and the following verse violence is described, as, in Rom 3:13, deceit.-, cursing) directed against God.-, bitterness) against their neighbour.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:-[They are full of blasphemies, malignities, and execrations against God and men. Thus the mouth, which God created to bless and honor him, is used to grieve him. By “bitterness is meant those wounding, stinging words which the wicked utter.]
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
Psa 10:7, Psa 59:12, Psa 109:17, Psa 109:18, Jam 3:10
Reciprocal: Psa 50:19 – tongue Psa 140:3 – adders’ Mat 15:11 – but Luk 6:45 – and an Luk 18:2 – which Act 23:15 – that he Eph 4:29 – no Eph 4:31 – bitterness Col 3:19 – bitter Jam 3:6 – a world Jam 3:9 – therewith curse
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Rom 3:14. Cursing and bitterness shows their hateful attitude toward others.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Rom 3:14. Whose month, etc. (From Psa 10:7.) The variations from the LXX. are slight. The Hebrew is: His mouth is full of oaths, and deceit, and fraud. Deceit, which occurs in the original, was omitted, because already mentioned (Rom 3:3).
Full of cursing and bitterness. The bitterness which prompts the speech is the cause of the cursing.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness [Psa 10:7]:
Fuente: McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries (New Testament)
14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. The darkness continues to intensify as we proceed away from God.