For without cause have they hid for me their net {in} a pit, {which} without cause they have digged for my soul.

An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips {there is} as a burning fire. {An...: Heb. A man of Belial}

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, {and} to turn away thy wrath from them.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. {He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit}

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: {but} I will meditate in thy precepts.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

[To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.] Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? {Altaschith...: or, Destroy not} {Michtam: or, A golden Psalm}

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

The wicked in {his} pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. {The wicked...: Heb. In the pride of the wicked he doth persecute}

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: {but} I will consider thy testimonies.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. {He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit}

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: {but} I will meditate in thy precepts.

For without cause have they hid for me their net {in} a pit, {which} without cause they have digged for my soul.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent {men} have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them. {violent: Heb. terrible}

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;