¹¹ Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

¹⁷ For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

⁵ Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

³ Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

² The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.