Psalm 64:5 {63:6}
Good News Translation
They encourage each other in their evil plots; they talk about where they will place their traps. "No one can see them," they say.

New Revised Standard Version
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see us?

Contemporary English Version
They are determined to do evil, and they tell themselves, "Let's set traps! No one can see us."

New American Bible
They resolve on their wicked plan; they conspire to set snares; they say: “Who will see us?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

encourage

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

Numbers 22:6 Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier than I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land: for I know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou shalt curse is cursed.

Proverbs 1:11-14 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. . . .

Isaiah 41:6 Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage.

Revelation 11:10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry: and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth.

matter.

1 Samuel 23:19-23 And the Ziphites went up to Saul, in Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not David lie hid with us in the strong holds of the wood, in mount Hachila, which is on the right hand of the desert. . . .

Matthew 23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte. And when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.

Matthew 26:3,4 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: . . .

of laying snares [heb.

Psalm 124:7 Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

Psalm 140:5 The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Who

Psalm 10:11 For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end.

Psalm 59:7 Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?

Psalm 94:7 And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

Ezekiel 8:12 And he said to me: Surely thou seest, O son of man, what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

Context
The Hurtful Tongue
4To shoot in secret the undefiled. 5They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?6They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:…
Cross References
Job 22:13
And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.

Psalm 10:11
For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end.

Psalm 140:5
The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Psalm 141:9
Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.

Jeremiah 36:24
And the king and all his servants that heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

Psalm 64:4
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