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

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

⁸ But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

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

¹³ Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

³³ Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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

⁸ And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.