Psalm 38:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
Those who want to kill me set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.

New Living Translation
Meanwhile, my enemies lay traps to kill me. Those who wish me harm make plans to ruin me. All day long they plan their treachery.

English Standard Version
Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.

Berean Study Bible
Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

New American Standard Bible
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction, And they plot deception all day long.

NASB 1995
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction, And they devise treachery all day long.

NASB 1977
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction, And they devise treachery all day long.

Amplified Bible
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.

Christian Standard Bible
Those who intend to kill me set traps, and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me; they plot treachery all day long.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Those who seek my life set traps, and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me; they plot treachery all day long.

Contemporary English Version
All who want me dead set traps to catch me, and those who want to harm and destroy me plan and plot all day.

Good News Translation
Those who want to kill me lay traps for me, and those who want to hurt me threaten to ruin me; they never stop plotting against me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Those who seek my life lay traps for me. Those who are out to harm me talk about ruining me. All day long they think of ways to deceive me.

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.

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.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
Those also who seek my life lay snares for me; Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction, And plan deception all the day long.

King James 2000 Bible
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.

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.

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.

American 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.

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.

A Faithful Version
And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plot deceptions all the day long.

Darby Bible 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.

English Revised 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
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.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
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.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
They that sought after my life, and to do me euell, spake of lyes and ymagined disceate all the daye longe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
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.

Young's 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.

Smith's Literal Translation
My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And those who sought evil accusations against me were speaking emptiness. And they practiced deceitfulness all day long.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And those who seek my life and seek my affliction took me and have spoken lies and have been meditating deceit all day.

Lamsa Bible
They also that seek after my life and wish me evil lay hold on me and speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.
















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