They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison {is} under their lips. Selah.

But the tongue can no man tame; {it is} an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. {a babbler: Heb. the master of the tongue}

Their wine {is} the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Their throat {is} an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps {is} under their lips:

{Yet} his meat in his bowels is turned, {it is} the gall of asps within him.

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. {cockatrice': or, adder's}

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which {will} not {be} charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

{Ye} serpents, {ye} generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. {adder: or, asp}

But the tongue can no man tame; {it is} an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. {a babbler: Heb. the master of the tongue}

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison {is} under their lips. Selah.

Their wine {is} the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which {will} not {be} charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. {pulled...: Heb. they gave a backsliding shoulder} {stopped: Heb. made heavy}

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: