Ecclesiastes 10:11
If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.
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- Ps 58:4-5 : 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [They are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, 5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.
- Jer 8:17 : 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
- Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
- Ps 64:3 : 3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
- Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
- Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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