Treasury of Scripture
poison
Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Ecclesiastes 10:11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
James 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
like [heb.] according to the likeness of a serpent.
Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers...
Matthew 23:33 You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell?
the deaf
Jeremiah 8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, said the LORD.
adder or asp.-- Pethenm is no doubt the baeten of the Arabians, which M. Forskal describes as spotted with black and white, about one foot in length, nearly half an inch thick, oviparous, and its bite almost instant death. It is the aspic of the ancients, and is so called the literati of Cyprus, though the common people call it [], deaf.
Job 20:14,16 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him...
Isaiah 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.