11. There is also another word which is used in divers places, which is ‏לָחַשׁ‎ _mussitavit_, he hath muttered, or murmured, and is taken generally for any kind of murmuring for any cause whatsoever, as in this place, _But when David saw that his servants whispered_. And again, _All that hate me, whisper together against me_. And in another place: _Fuderunt submissam orationem_, a low whispering prayer. In which places it is taken for any kind of low speaking, whispering or muttering. Of this we may observe these things. 1. Sometimes by a Metonymie it is taken for a low and modest speech, the art of Oratory, or Eloquence, as _Isaiah_ 3. 3. _& intelligentem vel peritum eloquentiæ_, and sometime for an ear-ring _inauris_, as in the 20. verse of the same Chapter. [Sidenote: Psal. 58. 6.] 2. It is also ascribed unto Charmers or Inchanters as in the Psalm, _That doth not hearken unto the voice of the charmers_: Where it is plain that all Charmers were whisperers and mutterers, but not on the contrary, that all whisperers or mutterers are Charmers. [Sidenote: Eccles. 10. 11.] 3. And whereas our English translation readeth it, _Surely the serpent will bite without inchantment, and a babler is no better_; It may as well be read, as _Arias Montanus_ translates it, _Si mordeat serpens in non susurro, vel absq: susurro_, If the Serpent bite without hissing, or sibilation. And _Schindlerus_ to the same purpose: _Si mordebit serpens absq; incantatione, vel murmure, id est sibilo_. And so _Avenarius_: _Si mordeat serpens absq; susurratione, id est absq; sibilo_. And though _Tremellius_, and the whole troop of Translators do render it, as our English Translators do, yet that will not make sense: for it would inferr that as a Serpent will bite except it be charmed, so will a babler do also. But who ever heard of a bablers being charmed? So that truly considered that cannot be the sense of the place. But if it be taken exactly according to the Hebrew, then the sense runs thus, If the Serpent bite without, or in not hissing, and excellency is not to him that hath a tongue; that is, The Serpent doth hurt with his biting, without making a noise with his tongue; but a babler doth make a noise, but effecteth nothing, or speaketh to no purpose. [Sidenote: Jerem. 8. 17.] 4. There is another Text in _Jeremy_ which is commonly rendered thus: _For behold I will send serpents, cockatrices among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord_. But it may be as fitly read, To whom there is no hissing, and they shall bite you. And whether way soever it be read, the sense is good; that is, their enemies shall be so fierce and cruel, that no words can stay or appease their fury; or that they shall be so sly and cunning, that they shall destroy you, before they speak, or give you warning: And whether way soever it be, there is a pronoun in the Hebrew which is superfluous, a thing that is usual in that language.