They shall lick the dust like a serpent, as the worms of the earth, that tremble in their holes. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and they shall fear thee.

Dan shall be a serpent in the way, and an adder in the path, and bite the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps.

They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

"Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they have deceived." "The poison of Asps is under their lips."

The cry of their enemies shall make a noise, as the blast of a trumpet. For they shall enter in with their host, and come with axes, as it were hewers-down of wood.

When he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, "O generation of vipers, who hath taught you to flee from the vengeance to come?

O generation of vipers, how can ye say well, when ye yourselves are evil? For of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

ye serpents and generation of vipers, how should ye escape the damnation of hell?

Then said he to the people that were come to be baptised of him, "O generation of vipers: who hath taught you to fly away from the wrath to come?

For their power was in their mouths and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they did hurt.

"Behold, I send you forth as sheep among wolves: Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves.

It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder.