He shall suck the poison of serpents; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

The burden concerning the beasts of the south. Into the land of trouble and anguish, from where the lioness and the lion come; the viper, and the fiery flying serpent; they carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.

Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape the condemnation of Gehenna?

So when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice does not allow to live.

It is as if a man fled before a lion, and a bear met him. Or he goes into the house and leans his hand against the wall, and a snake bites him.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not put to death;

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I excel them: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.