⁶ They say,^[b] “Appoint a wicked man against him;
    let an accuser stand on his right.^(C)
7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty;
    let his prayer be counted as sin.^(D)
8 May his days be few;
    may another seize his position.^(E)
9 May his children be orphans
    and his wife a widow.^(F)
10 May his children wander about and beg;
    may they be driven out of^[c] the ruins they inhabit.
¹¹ May the creditor seize all that he has;
    may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.^(G)
12 May there be no one to do him a kindness
    nor anyone to pity his orphaned children.^(H)
13 May his posterity be cut off;
    may his name be blotted out in the second generation.^(I)

¹² It is not enemies who taunt me—
    I could bear that;
it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me—
    I could hide from them.^(A)
13 But it is you, my equal,
    my companion, my familiar friend,^(B)
14 with whom I kept pleasant company;
    we walked in the house of God with the throng.^(C)
15 Let death come upon them;
    let them go down alive to Sheol,
    for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.^(D)