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 mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
Isaiah 28:3
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under foot:
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Exodus 7:5
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented.
Romans 6:21
What fruit had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Biteth
Ecclesiastes 10:8
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Jeremiah 8:17
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
Amos 5:19
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Amos 9:3
And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them from there; and though they are hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them:
An adder
Isaiah 59:5
They hatch viper's eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.