¹⁰ For I hear many whispering:
    “Terror is all around!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
    All my close friends
    are watching for me to stumble.
“Perhaps he can be enticed,
    and we can prevail against him
    and take our revenge on him.”^(A)

⁹ Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
    who ate of my bread, has lifted the heel against me.^(A)

¹³ For I hear the whispering of many—
    terror all around!—
as they scheme together against me,
    as they plot to take my life.^(A)

²¹ those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit,
    who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate
    and undermine justice for the one in the right.^(A)

²⁵ Do not go out into the field
    or walk on the road,
for the enemy has a sword;
    terror is on every side.”^(A)

¹⁸ Lying lips conceal hatred,
    and whoever utters slander is a fool.

² Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
    from the scheming of evildoers,^(A)
3 who whet their tongues like swords,
    who aim bitter words like arrows,^(B)
4 shooting from ambush at the blameless;
    they shoot suddenly and without fear.^(C)