⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: `They are' like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

³ They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah

¹¹ If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

⁸ But the tongue can no man tame; `it is' a restless evil, `it is' full of deadly poison.

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

³³ Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

¹⁷ For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

⁸ And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.

¹⁴ Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.

³³ Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.