Parallel Verses
King James Version
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
New American Standard Bible
And those who
And they
Holman Bible
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
International Standard Version
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.
A Conservative Version
Those also who seek after my life lay snares [for me]. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.
American Standard Version
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me ; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
Amplified
Those who seek my life lay snares for me,
And those who seek to injure me threaten mischievous things and destruction;
They devise treachery all the day long.
Darby Translation
And they that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.
Julia Smith Translation
My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off.
King James 2000
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
Modern King James verseion
And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They also that sought after my life laid snares for me; and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.
NET Bible
Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.
New Heart English Bible
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
The Emphasized Bible
Yea they who are seeking my life, have laid snares, and they who are asking my harm, have threatened engulfing ruin, And, deceitful things - all day long, do they mutter.
Webster
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
World English Bible
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
Youngs Literal Translation
And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day.
Themes
Character » Of the wicked » Conspiring against saints
Character of the wicked » Conspiring against God's people
Topics
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 38:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Of A Suffering Sinner
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Cross References
Psalm 35:20
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Psalm 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
2 Samuel 16:7-8
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
2 Samuel 17:1-3
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Psalm 10:9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psalm 35:4
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Psalm 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalm 62:3-4
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
Psalm 64:2-5
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Psalm 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Psalm 141:9
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Luke 20:19-22
And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.