'Scorpions' in the Bible

and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

But you, son of man, do not fear them, and do not fear their words -- even though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions -- do not fear their words and do not be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house!

Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.