He will be a snake by the road,
a viper beside the path,
that bites the horses’ heels
so that its rider falls backward.

Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake. Moses ran from it,

Go to Pharaoh in the morning. When you see him walking out to the water, stand ready to meet him by the bank of the Nile. Take in your hand the staff that turned into a snake.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake image and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.”

So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. Whenever someone was bitten, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered.

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for the Israelites burned incense to it up to that time. He called it Nehushtan.

They have venom like the venom of a snake,
like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

They make their tongues
as sharp as a snake’s bite;
viper’s venom is under their lips.Selah

In the end it bites like a snake
and stings like a viper.

the way of an eagle in the sky,
the way of a snake on a rock,
the way of a ship at sea,
and the way of a man with a young woman.

The one who digs a pit may fall into it,
and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

If the snake bites before it is charmed,
then there is no advantage for the charmer.

An infant will play beside the cobra’s pit,
and a toddler will put his hand into a snake’s den.

Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,
because the rod of the one who struck you is broken.
For a viper will come from the root of a snake,
and from its egg comes a flying serpent.

Egypt will hiss like a slithering snake,
for the enemy will come with an army;
with axes they will come against her
like those who cut trees.

It will be like a man who flees from a lion
only to have a bear confront him.
He goes home and rests his hand against the wall
only to have a snake bite him.

They will lick the dust like a snake;
they will come trembling out of their hiding places
like reptiles slithering on the ground.
They will tremble in the presence of Yahweh our God;
they will stand in awe of You.

Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,