Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vip