In some areas this made it an emblem of resurrection. Selket, the Egyptian goddess and protectress of the dead had the head of a scorpion. In the Bible, the scorpion's sting is an instrument of divine retribution. When the fifth trumpet of Revelation sounds, locusts with the tails of scorpions come out of the bottomless pit to sting those people who do not have the seal of God upon their foreheads. They are allowed to punish humankind for five terrible months.
Scorpions are also symbols of Africa, veracity, the earth, dialectic, and logic.
All scripture quotes are from the NKJV Bible unless otherwise indicated.