Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
And those who
And they
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.
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.
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 loved ones and my friends keep their distance because of my affliction. My kinsmen stand far away. 12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, do not hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.
Cross References
Psalm 35:20
For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
Psalm 140:5
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.
2 Samuel 16:7-8
Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow.
2 Samuel 17:1-3
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
Psalm 10:9
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
Psalm 35:4
Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
Psalm 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
Psalm 62:3-4
How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Psalm 64:2-5
Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
Psalm 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.
Psalm 141:9
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
Luke 20:19-22
The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people?for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.