4 I lie down among lions that greedily devour[a] human prey;their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.(A)
4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,(A)
8 but no one can tame the tongue—a restless[a] evil, full of deadly poison.(A)
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