4 ^aTheir poison is like the poison of a serpent;
They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear, ‡

5 Which will not ^aheed the voice of charmers,
Charming ever so skillfully. ‡

7 ^aLet them flow away as waters which run continually;
When he bends his bow,
Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces. ‡

8 Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
^aLike a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun. ‡