(King James version – 1611) To the main musician Al-taschith, Michtam von Dauid. 1 Are you really talking about justice, O church? Do you, you have it rightly, O you the suns of men? 2 Yes, in the heart you work, wickedness; You renounce the violence of your hands on earth. 3 The wicked are alienated from the belly, they stray from the belly when they are carried, and they tell lies. 4 Their poison is like the poyson of a snake; They are like the deafening Adderin who stops them: 5 Who will not listen to the voice of the charmers who so wisely enchant newcomers. This word is used for several Hebrew originals. In any case, a venomous snake is clearly indicated by the context. It is impossible to say in any case exactly what type it is, but it must be remembered that the English word adder is used in a very ambiguous way. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon Noedre, a snake or snake, and is the common English name for Vipera berus, L, the common viper found throughout Europe and northern Asia, but not in biblical lands; But the word «adder» is also used for various snakes, both venomous and non-toxic, found in different parts of the world. In America, for example, venomous moccasin (ancistrodone) and harmless pig-nosed snakes (heterodon) are called adders. When the sessions come, they will come from me.

In the meantime, to all the sequels, to all the inconsistencies, to all the letters, to all the tricks, I will be deaf as an adder and blind as an insect, put my ear on the ground and close my eyes with my hand against all temptations. The rural population says that an aggressor can never die before sunset. When cut into pieces, the pieces retain their vitality until sunset. They also say that on the Adder`s belly are the words: «If I could hear and see, no man in life could control me.» Five times in the Old Testament KJV, and three times in Rand for «cockatrice» (Isaiah 11:8; Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 59:5). Four Hebrew terms mean it. (1) Akshub, (2) Pethen, (3) Tziphoni and (4) Shephiphon. (1) Akshub («the one who is ambushed») inflates his skin and raises his head for a blow. Psalm 140:3 quotes in Romans 3:13, «the poison of aspen.» (2) Pethen, Psalm 58:4; Psalm 91:13, «adder» (see margin), but elsewhere translated as «asp»; a Hebrew root «to dilate around the neck.» The mortal haje naja, or Egyptian cobra, likes to hide in walls and holes. Snakes are without tympanic cavity and without external openings to the ear. The deaf viper is not a specific species; but while the relative deafness of a serpent made her more accessible to the sounds she could hear, in some cases she was deaf because she did not want to hear (Jeremiah 8:17; Ecclesiastes 10:11). David`s unjust opponents, though they still had little moral sense to which he appealed, suffocated him and were unwilling to listen to God`s voice. (3) Tziphoni, translated only in Proverbs 23:32; «Finally, the wine bites like a serpent and stings like an adder,» in Jeremiah 8:17 «kakaduschen,» from a root «jump forward and whistle.» Greek basil, wild, deadly; differs from the «serpent» (Hebrew, Nachash), Isaiah 14:29; oviparous (Isaiah 59:5); underground in habits (Isaiah 11:8).

(4) Shephiphon, «crawling» from a root; Jakobs Bild von Dan (1. Moses 49:17), who hides in the street and bites the horses on the heels; the Coluber cerastes, a small and very venomous snake from Egypt. Charmers can inflate the animal by special pressure on the neck, so that the snake becomes rigid and can be held horizontally like a rod. Egyptian magicians may have used the hashish species as a stick and restored life by throwing it away; at least, according to snake charmers in today`s world. Shrill sounds, like the flute, are what snakes can best recognize, because their hearing is imperfect. The music enchants the Naja (Cobra di Capello, hooded snake) and the Cerastes (horned viper). Moses` truly transformed staff swallowed his false staff or serpent, capturing the symbol of Egypt`s protective deity. The fact that the naja shark was the «burning serpent» or serpent that inflicted a burning bite appears from the name Ras-om-Haye (Cape of the Hash snakes) at the place where the Israelites were bitten (Numbers 21:6). The law will maintain a constant and divergent course in all the vicissitudes of government, fluctuations in passions or flights of enthusiasm; He will not bend to people`s uncertain desires, ideas, and gratuitous temperaments. In the words of a great and dignified man, a patriot, a hero, an enlightened friend of humanity and a martyr of freedom; I mean ALGERNON SIDNEY, who from his earliest childhood sought a quiet retreat in the shade of the tree of freedom, with his tongue, pen and sword: «The law (he says) no passion can disturb.

He is free of desire and fear, lust and anger. It is mens sine affectionate; written reason; maintain a certain degree of divine perfection. He does not command what pleases a weak and fragile person, but without regard for people, commands what is good and punishes evil in all, rich or poor, up or down, he is deaf, relentless, inflexible. 228 On the one hand, he is implacable for the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; On the other hand, he is deaf, deaf as an addition to the cries of the population. The wicked are alienated from the womb: they go astray from birth and tell lies. Their poison is like the poison of a snake: they are like the deaf ADDER that stops its ear; who will not listen to the voice of the charmers, charming never so wise. ( Psalm 58:3-5 ) The English author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) mentioned the biblical deaf adder several times; For example, the phrase «a deaf adder stopping his car» (Psalm 58:4) alludes to a strange idea that, in order not to hear the charmer`s voice, the adder put his head on the ground with one car and stopped the other with the tip of his tail (Diary of John Manninghan, 1602). The viper is described by Shakespeare as deaf (2 Hen VI, iii, 2, 76; Troilus and Cressida, ii, 2, 172). The bad idea probably came from the lack of outer ears. Physical deafness was considered a judgment of God (Exodus 4:11; Micah 7:16), and so it was ungodly to curse the doves (Leviticus 19:14). This word is used for any venomous snake and is used in this general sense by translators of the authorized version.

The word adder appears five times in the text of the authorized version (see below) and three times in the margin as a synonym for cockatrice, namely (Isaiah 11:8; 14:29; 59:5) It represents four Hebrew words: Acshub appears only in (Psalm 140:3) and can be represented by the toxicosis of Egypt and North Africa. Pethen. [ASP] Tsepha or Tsiphoni appears five times in the Hebrew Bible. In ( Proverbs 23:32 ) it is translated adder, and in ( Isaiah 11:8; 14:29; 59:5; Jeremiah 8:17 ) he is made a cockatrice. From Jeremiah we learn that he was hostile in nature, and from the parallelism of (Isaiah 11:8), it is clear that the Tsiphoni was considered even more terrible than the Pethen. Shephipon appears only in (Genesis 49:17), where he is used to characterize the tribe of Dan. The habit of hiding here in the sand and biting the heels of horses matches the character of a well-known species of venomous snake and helps to identify it with the famous horned viper, Cleopatra`s aspen (Cerastes), which is abundant in the dry sand deserts of Egypt, Syria and Arabia.