²⁰ In the covert of thy presence wilt thou hide them from the plottings of man: Thou wilt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

⁵ For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion: In the covert of his tabernacle will he hide me; He will lift me up upon a rock.

⁷ Thou art my hiding-place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah

²¹ Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

¹⁴ O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them.

¹ He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

² I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust.

³ For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.

⁴ He will cover thee with his pinions, And under his wings shalt thou take refuge: His truth is a shield and a buckler.

⁵ 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

⁴ he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not `a wisdom' that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

¹⁶ For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

⁶ But he giveth more grace. Wherefore `the scripture' saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

² Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;

³ Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

⁴ That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

⁴ Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

¹¹ Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.

² In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

¹¹ Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.

⁵ Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

³ They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah

¹³ Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

⁵ So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

⁶ And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,

²⁰ For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means `there should be' strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;