For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare; without a cause they have reproached my soul.

Transgressors told me [idle tales]; but not according to Your law, O Lord.

Even because you attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.

Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they [meant] for me. Remember that I stood before Your face, to speak good concerning them, to turn away Your wrath from them.

The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.

The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. Pause.

While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued; [the wicked] are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

Let a snare which they know not come upon them; and the net which they hid take them; and let them fall into the very same snare.

to give him rest from evil days, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

[As for] the head of them that surround me, the mischief of their lips shall cover them.

Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and You shall cast them down in afflictions; they shall not bear up [under them].

Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.

So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai; and then the king's wrath was appeased.

Accordingly, as I have seen men plowing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

Iniquities ensnare a man, and everyone is bound in the chains of his own sins.

He that digs a pit for his neighbor shall fall into it, and he that rolls a stone, rolls it upon himself.

He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and him that breaks down a hedge a serpent shall bite.

He that quarries stones may be hurt by them; and he that splits wood may be endangered by them.