⁸ Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked, His wicked device bring not forth, They are high. Selah.

²⁷ If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.

³¹ and David declared, saying, `Ahithophel `is' among the conspirators with Absalom;' and David saith, `Make foolish, I pray Thee, the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.'

¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

² Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

³ Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

¹² Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

²⁰ Is a throne of mischief joined `with' Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?

²¹ They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.