And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them away from thence: and though they hide themselves from my eyes in the depth of the sea, there will I command the serpent and he shall bite them.
As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
They have broken the eggs of asps and have woven the webs of spiders. He that shall eat of their eggs shall die: and that which is brought out shall be hatched into a basilisk.