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.

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

And they watched {him}, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

The law of the wise {is} a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

They also that seek after my life lay snares {for me}: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for 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.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, {and} from the noisome pestilence.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. {at...: Heb. which he knoweth not of}

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

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

They also that seek after my life lay snares {for me}: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

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.