Parallel Verses

Amplified


Like godless jesters at a feast,
They gnashed at me with their teeth [in malice].

New American Standard Bible

Like godless jesters at a feast,
They gnashed at me with their teeth.

King James Version

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Holman Bible

With godless mockery
they gnashed their teeth at me.

International Standard Version

Malicious mockers they gnashed their teeth against me.

A Conservative Version

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

American Standard Version

Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Bible in Basic English

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Darby Translation

With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.

Julia Smith Translation

With profane mocking parasites, gnashing their teeth against me.

King James 2000

With hypocritical mockers at feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Among [the] ungodly of the mockers at feasts, [they] gnashed at me with their teeth.

Modern King James verseion

with the hypocrites, mockers, for a cake, they gnashed on me with their teeth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

With the flatterers were busy mockers, who gnashed upon me with their teeth.

NET Bible

When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.

New Heart English Bible

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

The Emphasized Bible

Amidst profane praters of perversion, have they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Webster

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

World English Bible

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Youngs Literal Translation

With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.

References

Watsons

Context Readings

Prayer For Victory

15
But in my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together [against me];
The slanderers whom I did not know gathered against me;
They slandered and reviled me without ceasing.
16 
Like godless jesters at a feast,
They gnashed at me with their teeth [in malice].
17
Lord, how long will You look on [without action]?
Rescue my life from their destructions,
My only life from the young lions.


Cross References

Job 16:9


“His wrath has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with his teeth;
My adversary sharpens His gaze and glares [with piercing eyes] at me.

Lamentations 2:16


All your enemies
Have opened their mouths wide against you;
They [scornfully] hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have swallowed her up!
Certainly this is the day for which we waited;
We have reached it, we have seen it!”

Psalm 37:12


The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.

1 Samuel 20:24-42

So David hid in the field; and when the New Moon [festival] came, the king sat down to eat food.

Isaiah 1:14-15


“I hate [the hypocrisy of] your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts.
They have become a burden to Me;
I am weary of bearing them.

John 18:28

Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium (governor’s palace). Now it was early and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium so that they would not be [ceremonially] unclean, but might [be able to] eat [and participate in the Feast of Unleavened Bread which began after] the Passover [supper].

Acts 7:54

Now when they heard this [accusation and understood its implication], they were cut to the heart, and they began grinding their teeth [in rage] at him.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and [untainted] truth.

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