⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

¹¹ If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.

⁸ But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

¹³ "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

³³ You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You 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, says Yahweh.

⁸ 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 cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

¹⁴ Yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

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