Ps 57 I am in the midst of lions;I lie among ravenous beasts-men whose teeth are spears and arrows,whose tongues are sharp swords.The Psalmist is teaching that evil started in the garden when the serpent redefined Gods word.  Gen. 3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" It was a direct contradiction since God said that they could eat of every tree except one tree. The violence was not a direct threat. It was concealed in one sentence whose purpose was to destroy mans authority of ruling the world through Gods word. The war between good and evil is a war of two kingdoms. This is why the serpent is described as being crafty. He is gonna speak with the intent to destroy our confidence in Gods axioms. 

The genesis account teaches us that God created all things according to the order of words. There is nothing identical in the creation. So God created the difference in all things with a purpose of describing them in the more complex language of His axioms.God has given us the axioms as the outline of His more extensive knowledge so that we can recreate the disorder that was introduced by the Serpent. Self knowledge is an understanding the axioms and being led by God through specific applications to our lives as we are illuminated by the Spirit. We are in a cosmic war with the devil who pronounces violence in warring with our pronouncements of the axioms. The axioms are not written as arguments to establish the truth but as pronouncements to silence the redefinition of Gods word. When we destroy the false ideas then we learn to hide in the axioms. We depend entirely on a source that is not in this world.