⁷⁸ Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

²⁰ For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

²⁵ But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

³² And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

⁸⁵ The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

⁸⁶ All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

⁵¹ The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

²³ Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

²¹ Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

³ They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

⁴ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.