Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.