day no. 15,306: dead bodies and deadlier vipers

Romans 3:9-13
For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written:

None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.

Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.

The venom of asps is under their lips.

Doug Wilson, in Romans: An Apostolic Study Edition, summarizes Paul's smorgasbord of Old Testament statements here in Romans 3 by saying,

"These people have mouths, tongues and throats that are open graves, filled with dead bodies and living vipers."

Jesus called to mind the same imagery when confronting sinners by saying,

Matthew 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:33
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

Anyone outside of Christ is likened to a tomb full of dead bodies and deadlier vipers.