scorpion

Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

An evil wife is a yoke shaken to and fro: he that hath hold of her is as though he held a scorpion.

O my boy! thou hast been to me like the scorpion which when it strikes on brass, pierces it.

As he spake thus the guards bound him and brought him before the catapult; and they tied him thereto on his knees, and, fastening them there with iron clamps, they wrenched his loins over the rolling 'wedge' so that he was completely curled back like a scorpion and every joint was disjointed.