“He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper’s tongue slays him.

They sharpen their tongues as a serpent; Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper.

The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

Judgment on Philistia

“Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For from the serpent’s root a viper will come out, And its fruit will be a flying serpent.

The oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent, They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys And their treasures on camels’ humps, To a people who cannot profit them;

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?

So he began saying to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.