"Bent on Destruction"

"Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely." (Psalms 58:4-5) You know what my take is on "The Rich Young Ruler", so he does pretty good in the end; but had he believed at the time of his asking, he would not have had to ask "How do I inherit eternal life?" It is one thing to believe in Jesus as a Good Master, or even as the Lord, but do you believe in all that He has done for you? More than that, can you accept it and make it your own? When I think about this first part of the verse, I can not help but think of the curse that was given to the devil in the garden, because the word "poison" speaks more about anger than it does of actual poison; and you know the devil was angry with the curse that he received; so much so, he spent the next four thousand years trying to reverse the curse; and he still works on doing so, even until today. If only he would learn that he cannot win against God, but isn't that something that we need to take into consideration for our own lives also? I mean, what do we think when we discard the word of God? as if His word is not meant for me, or as if it is intended for someone else? The wicked can be listed in many different categories, from the simple liar, to the most ruthless killer, with one very important thing that they have in common, they are ungodly and unrighteous. The whole point of this portion of Scripture has to do with not listening to instruction; not because you will not listen, but because you cannot listen; you cannot listen because you are deaf and angry; angry because you cannot have it your way, and deaf because you do not like instruction. God is not trying to ruin your life with rules and restrictions, He is trying to protect you and guide your life in the way that is best for you; but like an unruly child, we want to have it our way, and we test the hand of God upon our lives. I am beginning to wonder if this Psalm has some sort of self-inflecting twist, as if, David is asking to be punished himself; after all, how do we know whether or not God actually cares what we do? How does our child know when we are watching out for their well being? Is it not by the way that we discipline them when they do wrong? If we do not discipline our children, then it shows we really do not care how they grow up, and that instruction can be taken or left as just someone's opinion, but not as something that must be listened to...
"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are inder the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Romans 3:10-20)