17 Dan(A) will be a snake by the roadside,
    a viper along the path,(B)
that bites the horse’s heels(C)
    so that its rider tumbles backward.

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17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

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13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
    you will trample the great lion and the serpent.(A)

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13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

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Their venom is like the venom of a snake,(A)
    like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

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

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They make their tongues as sharp as(A) a serpent’s;
    the poison of vipers(B) is on their lips.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 140:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 8.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

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32 In the end it bites like a snake
    and poisons like a viper.

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

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