Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery 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.
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
and my relatives stand at a distance.
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
I am like a speechless person
who does not open his mouth.
Cross References
Psalm 35:20
but contrive deceitful schemes
against those who live peacefully in the land.
Psalm 140:5
they spread a net along the path
and set snares for me.
2 Samuel 16:7-8
Shimei said as he cursed: “Get out, get out, you worthless murderer!
2 Samuel 17:1-3
Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose 12,000 men, and I will set out in pursuit of David tonight.
Psalm 10:9
He lurks in order to seize the afflicted;
he seizes the afflicted and drags him in his net.
Psalm 35:4
be disgraced and humiliated;
let those who plan to harm me
be turned back and ashamed.
Psalm 54:3
and violent men seek my life.
They have no regard for God.
Psalm 62:3-4
Will all of you attack
as if he were a leaning wall
or a tottering stone fence?
Psalm 64:2-5
from the mob of evildoers,
Psalm 119:110
but I have not wandered from Your precepts.
Psalm 141:9
and from the snares of evildoers.
Luke 20:19-22
Then the scribes and the chief priests