Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

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

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue 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.

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.