Cockatrices

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

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

• Judgments
• Plague

And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

• Serpents

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;