Revelation 9:5 Their mission was not to kill, but to cause awful agony for five months; and this agony was like that which a scorpion inflicts when it stings a man. (WEY NAS RSV)
Revelation 9:10 They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 23:32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like a basilisk. (See NAS RSV)