Ecclesiastes 10:11
If the serpent bite, when he is not charmed: no better is a babbler.
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- Ps 58:4-5 : 4 Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare. 5 Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
- Jer 8:17 : 17 For beholde, I will sende serpents, and cockatrices among you, which will not be charmed, and they shal sting you, sayth the Lord.
- Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.
- Ps 64:3 : 3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.
- Prov 18:21 : 21 Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.
- Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
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8He that diggeth a pit, shall fal into it, and he that breaketh the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
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4Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
5Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
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32In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
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18As he that faineth himselfe mad, casteth fire brands, arrowes, and mortall things,
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4Answer not a foole according to his foolishnes, least thou also be like him.