1. Our English Translators render it thus, speaking of the deaf Adder or Asp; _Which will not hearken to the voice of the charmers, charming never so wisely_; and in the margent, or _be the Charmer never so cunning_, where they take no notice of the conjoyning of conjunctions, and consequently none of such a league or compact. 2. _Tremellius_ gives it thus: _Quæ non auscultat voci mussitantium, utentis incantationibus peritissimi_, which piece of Latine were very difficult to put into perfect Grammatical construction, because _mussitantium_ is the plural number, but _utentis_ and _peritissimi_ are of the singular, which we shall leave to the censure of Criticks, and give the marginal note that is there added. _Surdæ id est, calidè agentis adversus incantamenta, ut sequentia exponunt, nam aurem utramq; ab ea obturari_, &c. Of the deaf Adder “That is to say, that acteth craftily against the incantations, as the following words do expound: For she stoppeth both her ears, by fixing one to the earth, and covering, and stopping the other with her tail;” and that _Hierome_, _Augustine_, _Cassiodorus_, and others do so expound the place. Whether this be true of the Asp or not is much to be doubted, for I find no Author of credit that doth averr it of his own knowledge, and the thing is very difficult to bring to experiment, and the Psalmist might speak according to vulgar opinion, of which there was no necessity that it should be literally and certainly true. Further he goes on and saith, _mussitantium_ “That is to say, pronouncing their incantations to charm her, whispering and very low; which study of charming, lest any should think that _David_ doth approve of them in this place, he learnedly useth the very words of the prohibition, which God laid down _Deut._ 18. 11. For (he saith) these fascinators in the Hebrew appellation are said to consociate society, because they apply the society of the Devil to their arts.” 3. Those we call the Septuagint do render it thus: Ἥτις οὐκ εἰσκούσεται φωνὴν επᾳδόντων, φαρμάκου τε φαρμακευομένου παρὰ σοφοῦ. And that which is ascribed to _Hierome_ in the eight Tome of his works printed at _Basil_ 1525, gives two Latine versions to this, the one answering to the Septuagint which is this: _Quæ non exaudiet vocem incantantium & venefici incantantis sapienter_. The other according to the Hebrew thus, _Ut non audiat vocem murmurantium, nec incantatoris incantationes callidas_. So that this maketh the meaning to be, that the deaf Asp is so cunning in stopping of her ear, that she doth not hear the voice of those that murmur, and mutter charms, though it be a Charmer that uttereth the most cunning and powerful charms: So that here is no regard had to conjoyning or associating either of Serpents together, or of the society of the Charmer and the Devil.