¹⁷ See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

²⁴ They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

⁵ Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers.

⁶ Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

¹¹ If a snake gives a bite before the word of power is said, then there is no longer any use in the word of power.

²⁹ Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.

¹⁹ As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

³ Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:

¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.