⁷⁸ Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

¹⁰ Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill you; but [my eye] spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.

¹¹ Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know you and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt after my life to take it.

¹² Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.

²⁵ But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

³² The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him.

⁸⁵ The proud have dug pits for me, Contrary to your law.

⁸⁶ All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

⁵¹ The arrogant mock me excessively, But I don't swerve from your law.

²³ Though princes sit and slander me, Your servant will meditate on your statutes.

²¹ You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, Who wander from your commandments.

³ They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.

⁴ Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.

²⁶ Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

⁷ For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

³ Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

³ Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

⁴ If I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (Yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

⁵ Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

² But his delight is in Yahweh's law; On his law he meditates day and night.

¹⁸ He said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

¹⁷ He said to David, You are more righteous than I; for you have rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to you evil.

²⁰ For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.