Job 20:16

A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long

¹⁵ “He swallows riches,
But will vomit them up;
God will expel them from his belly.
¹⁶ “He sucks the poison of cobras;
The viper’s tongue slays him.
¹⁷ “He does not look at the streams,
The rivers flowing with honey and curds.

Job

Deuteronomy 32:24

‘They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague
And bitter destruction;
And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,
With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

Isaiah 30:6

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;

Matthew 3:7

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?

Acts 28:3-6

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.

Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;