My enemies say of me in malice,
    “When will he die and his name perish?(A)

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Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

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The name of the righteous(A) is used in blessings,[a]
    but the name of the wicked(B) will rot.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 10:7 See Gen. 48:20.

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

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All day long my enemies(A) taunt me;(B)
    those who rail against me use my name as a curse.(C)

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Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

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12 Those who want to kill me set their traps,(A)
    those who would harm me talk of my ruin;(B)
    all day long they scheme and lie.(C)

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12 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.

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he will perish forever,(A) like his own dung;
    those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’(B)

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Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

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But I am a worm(A) and not a man,
    scorned by everyone,(B) despised(C) by the people.
All who see me mock me;(D)
    they hurl insults,(E) shaking their heads.(F)
“He trusts in the Lord,” they say,
    “let the Lord rescue him.(G)
Let him deliver him,(H)
    since he delights(I) in him.”

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But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

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17 The memory of him perishes from the earth;(A)
    he has no name(B) in the land.(C)

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17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

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