If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage to the charmer.
For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you,” declares the Lord.
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
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