14 Bible Verses about Things Like Snakes
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They lick dust as a serpent, as fearful things of earth, They tremble from their enclosures, Of Jehovah our God they are afraid, Yea, they are afraid of Thee.
Dan is a serpent by the way, An adder by the path, Which is biting the horse's heels, And its rider falleth backward.
The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps.
Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.
A sepulchre opened is their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps is under their lips.
Its voice as a serpent goeth on, For with a force they go, And with axes they have come in to her, As hewers of trees.
And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, 'Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?
Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
Then said he to the multitudes coming forth to be baptised by him, 'Brood of vipers! who did prompt you to flee from the coming wrath?
for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure;
'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.
Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.