They have sharpened their tongue as [the tongue] of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

If a serpent bite when there is no [charmer's] whisper, then there is no advantage to the charmer.

"Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " [the] poison of asps is under their lips";

But no man can tame the tongue. [It] is an unrestrainable evil, full of deadly poison.

But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Serpents! Brood of vipers! How shall you escape from the condemnation of hell?

For behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you

yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; the gall of an asp is in his belly.

And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.

And an infant shall put his hand into the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps.