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(2) [No!] In your hearts you devise wrongs,
your hands dispense violence in the land.

(3) From the womb, the wicked are estranged,
liars on the wrong path since birth.
(4) Their venom is like snake’s venom;
they are like a serpent that stops its ears,

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Even from birth the wicked go astray;
    from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.
Their venom is like the venom of a snake,(A)
    like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
that will not heed(B) the tune of the charmer,(C)
    however skillful the enchanter may be.

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