Proverbs 23:32

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

Exodus 7:5-6

The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.”

Exodus 7:12

For every man threw down his staff and they turned into serpents; but Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

Job 20:16

“He sucks the poison of vipers [which ill-gotten wealth contains];
The viper’s tongue slays him.

Proverbs 5:11

And you will groan when your life is ending,
When your flesh and your body are consumed;

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.

Isaiah 28:3

The splendid crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trampled by [the foreigners’] feet.

But even these reel with wine and stagger from strong drink:
The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink;
They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink;
They reel while seeing visions,
They stagger when pronouncing judgment.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s webs;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from an egg which is crushed a viper breaks out.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule on their own authority;
And My people love [to have] it so!
But what will you do when the end comes?

Jeremiah 8:17

“For behold, I am sending serpents among you,
Vipers which cannot be charmed,
And they will bite you,” says the Lord.

Amos 5:19

It is as if a man runs from a lion [escaping one danger]
And a bear meets him [so he dies anyway],
Or goes home, and leans with his hand against the wall
And a snake bites him.

Amos 9:3

“Though they hide on the summit of [Mount] Carmel,
I will track them down and take them from there;
And though they hide from My sight on the floor of the sea,
From there I shall command the serpent and it will bite them.

Luke 16:25-26

But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things [all the comforts and delights], and Lazarus likewise bad things [all the discomforts and distresses]; but now he is comforted here [in paradise], while you are in severe agony.

Romans 6:21

So what benefit did you get at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None!] For the outcome of those things is death!

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