⁴ Their poison `is' as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

³ They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.

¹¹ If the serpent biteth without enchantment, Then there is no advantage to a master of the tongue.

⁸ and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

¹³ A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips.

³³ `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

⁷ And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?

¹⁷ For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.

⁸ And played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp, And on the den of a cockatrice Hath the weaned one put his hand.

¹⁶ Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

¹⁴ His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps `is' in his heart.

³³ The poison of dragons `is' their wine And the fierce venom of asps.