Their tongues are like deadly snakes; their words are like a cobra's poison.

Knowing how to charm a snake is of no use if you let the snake bite first.

Their words are full of deadly deceit; wicked lies roll off their tongues, and dangerous threats, like snake's poison, from their lips;

But no one has ever been able to tame the tongue. It is evil and uncontrollable, full of deadly poison.

When John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to be baptized, he said to them, "You snakes---who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send?

You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell?

"Watch out!" the LORD says, "I am sending snakes among you, poisonous snakes that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you."

But in their stomachs the food turns bitter, as bitter as any poison could be.

What the evil people swallow is like poison; it kills them like the bite of a deadly snake.

Even a baby will not be harmed if it plays near a poisonous snake.