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

³ Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

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.

⁸ But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.

¹³ Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

³³ You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

⁷ But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

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.

⁸ And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.

¹⁶ He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

¹⁴ His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

³³ Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.