Parallel Verses
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.
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 loved ones and my friends keep their distance and my relatives stand far away because of my sickness.
12
And those who
And they
Cross References
Psalm 35:20
They do not talk about peace. Instead, they scheme against the peaceful people in the land.
Psalm 140:5
Arrogant people have laid a trap for me. They have spread out a net with ropes. They have set traps for me along the road.
2 Samuel 16:7-8
Shimei cursed him and said: Get out! Get out you murderer!
2 Samuel 17:1-3
Later Ahithophel said to Absalom: Let me choose twelve thousand men. Tonight I will set out after David.
Psalm 10:9
He lurks in his hiding place like a lion in his den. He hides there to catch oppressed people. He catches oppressed people after he draws them into his net.
Psalm 35:4
Let those who seek my life be put to shame and disgraced. Let those who plan my downfall be turned back in confusion.
Psalm 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me. And oppressors seek after my life. They have not kept God in their presence.
Psalm 62:3-4
How long will all of you attack a man? How long will you try to murder him, as though he were a leaning wall or a sagging fence?
Psalm 64:2-5
Keep me safe from secret plots of corrupt evildoers.
Psalm 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not gone astray from your precepts.
Psalm 141:9
Keep me away from the trap they set for me and from the traps set by troublemakers.
Luke 20:19-22
The scribes and the chief priests attempted to capture him in that very hour. They feared the people. They perceived that he spoke this illustration against them.