Ps 58:4-5; Ec 10:11; Jer 8:17, persons very common throughout India and Egypt, who claim to have the faculty of catching, taming, and controlling serpents, even the most venomous.
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage to the charmer.
For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you," declares the LORD.
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