⁹ Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, From the traps of the workers of iniquity.

⁵ The proud have hidden a snare for me, They have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

¹¹⁰ The wicked have laid a snare for me, Yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.

¹² They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all day long.

³ When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.

¹⁴ The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, To turn from the snares of death.

²² Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

²⁰ They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.