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 thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
Isaiah 28:3
By feet trodden down is the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved it so, And what do they at its latter end?
Exodus 7:5
and the Egyptians have known that I am Jehovah, in My stretching out My hand against Egypt; and I have brought out the sons of Israel from their midst.'
Luke 16:25
And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;
Romans 6:21
what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.
Biteth
Ecclesiastes 10:8
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Jeremiah 8:17
For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.
Amos 5:19
As when one fleeth from the face of the lion, And the bear hath met him, And he hath come in to the house, And hath leant his hand on the wall, And the serpent hath bitten him.
Amos 9:3
And if they be hid in the top of Carmel, From thence I search out, and have taken them, And if they be hid from Mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, From thence I command the serpent, And it hath bitten them.
An adder
Isaiah 59:5
Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper.