Job 20:16

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’ ”

Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of Yahweh’s house and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.

“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

A multitude of camels will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah. All from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and frankincense, and will proclaim the praises of Yahweh.

The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.

“They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”

Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.

“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.” ’

“Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South.

For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be within you. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.