Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
An adder
Bible References
At
Proverbs 5:11
And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
Isaiah 28:3
The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Exodus 7:5
And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand is stretched out over Egypt, and I take the children of Israel out from among them.
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
Romans 6:21
What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
Biteth
Ecclesiastes 10:8
He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
Jeremiah 8:17
See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.
Amos 5:19
As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.
Amos 9:3
Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:
An adder
Isaiah 59:5
They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.