Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

The serpent

Psalm 58:4
They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
Jeremiah 8:17
“For behold, I am sending serpents against you,
Adders, for which there is no charm,
And they will bite you,” declares the Lord.

A babbler

Psalm 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
Psalm 64:3
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.