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

His food, in his stomach, is changed, the gall of adders, within him!

The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him;

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within [as with the fang of an adder],

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

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

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

They hatch adders eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.