⁸⁵ The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

⁷ For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

¹⁵ He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

⁷⁸ Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

²⁰ 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.

¹¹ Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

¹ Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

² Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

²⁷ An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

²² 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.