Verse List for PSA 38:12

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OET (OET-RV) Those who want me dead lay snares for me. ⇔ They who desire harm for me speak destructive words ⇔ and say sprout treachery all day long.

OET-LV [fn] and_they _set _traps life _of_(of)_my those _who_seek _of and_those _who_seek _of harm _of_(of)_my they _have _spoken destruction(s) and_deceit(s) all _of the_day they _devise.

ULT And the seekers of my life lay snares, ⇔  and the pursuers of my harm speak destructions ⇔  and mutter treacheries all the day.

UST Those who want to kill me set traps for me, ⇔  and those who want to harm me talk about how to destroy me ⇔  and they constantly plot how they will deceive me.

BSB & MSB Those who seek my life lay snares; ⇔  those who wish me harm speak destruction, ⇔  plotting deceit all day long.

OEB They who aim at my life lay their snares, ⇔  they who seek my hurt speak of ruin, ⇔  nursing treachery all the day long.

WEBBE & WMBB They also who seek after my life lay snares. ⇔  Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, ⇔  and meditate deceits all day long.

NET 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.

LSV And those seeking my soul lay a snare,
And those seeking my evil
Have spoken mischievous things,
And they meditate [on] deceits all the day.

FBV Those who are trying to kill me set traps for me; those who want to hurt me make threats against me, working on their deceitful schemes all day long.

T4T And those who want to kill me set traps to catch me; ⇔  those who want to harm me discuss ways to get rid of me; ⇔  they plot against me all day.

LEB • Those who seek my life lay snares as well,
• and those intent on my harm speak threats.
• They also plot deceit all day.

BBE Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

Moff Those who seek my life are setting snares, ⇔  aiming to injure me; ⇔ they talk of ruining me, ⇔  and all the day discuss intrigues.

JPS (38-13) They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak crafty devices, and utter deceits all the day.

ASV 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.

DRA Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

YLT 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.

Drby 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.

RV 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.

SLT My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off.

Wbstr 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.

KJB-1769 ⇔  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.

KJB-1611 They also that seeke after my life, lay snares for me: and they that seeke my hurt, speake mischieuous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares for me: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long.
(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.)

Gnva They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.
(They also, that seek after my life, lay snares, and they that go about to do me evil, talk wicked things and imagine deceit continually.)

Cvdl They that sought after my life, and to do me euell, spake of lyes and ymagined disceate all the daye longe.
(They that sought after my life, and to do me evil, spake of lies and imagined deceit all the day long.)

Wycl Fro the strengthe of thin hond Y failide in blamyngis; for wickidnesse thou hast chastisid man. And thou madist his lijf to faile as an yreyne; netheles ech man is disturblid in veyn.
(From the strength of thin hand I failed in blamings; for wickedness thou/you hast chastised man. And thou/you made his life to fail as an yreyne; nevertheless each man is disturbed in vain.)

Luth Meine Lieben und Freunde stehen gegen mich und scheuen meine Plage, und meine Nächsten treten ferne.
(My loved_(one) and friends stand to/against me and shy_away/shun my plague/infliction, and my neighbour step(v) distant.)

ClVg A fortitudine manus tuæ ego defeci in increpationibus: propter iniquitatem corripuisti hominem. Et tabescere fecisti sicut araneam animam ejus: verumtamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.[fn]
(From with_courage hands yours I defeci in/into/on reprimands: because iniquity corripuisti man. And to_fade_away you_did like spiderm the_soul his/her: nevertheless vane is_disturbed everyone man.)

UHB 13 וַ⁠יְנַקְשׁ֤וּ ׀ מְבַקְשֵׁ֬י נַפְשִׁ֗⁠י וְ⁠דֹרְשֵׁ֣י רָ֭עָתִ⁠י דִּבְּר֣וּ הַוּ֑וֹת וּ֝⁠מִרְמ֗וֹת כָּל־הַ⁠יּ֥וֹם יֶהְגּֽוּ׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἐν ἐλεγμοῖς ὑπὲρ ἀνομίας ἐπαίδευσας ἄνθρωπον· καὶ ἐξέτηξας ὡς ἀράχνην τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ, πλὴν μάτην ταράσσεται πᾶς ἄνθρωπος· διάψαλμα.

BrTr Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web: nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.