¹⁵ A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

⁸ As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

²⁷ Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth.

¹⁰ The wicked fall in their nets together, till I pass over!

⁸⁵ The proud have digged for me pits, That `are' not according to Thy law.

⁷ For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

⁸ Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

²⁰ Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.

⁸ Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.

⁹ Whoso is removing stones is grieved by them, Whoso is cleaving trees endangered by them.

²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

⁹ The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

¹⁰ They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not.

¹³ To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.

⁶ A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

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

¹⁵ Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

¹⁶ Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

²⁷ Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

¹⁰ And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.