Serpent: Venom of

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.

The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.