^85 (A)The insolent have ^(B)dug pitfalls for me;
    they do not live according to your law.

^20 (A)Should good be repaid with evil?
    Yet ^(B)they have dug a pit for my life.
^(C)Remember how I stood before you
    to speak good for them,
    to turn away your wrath from them.

^27 (A)A worthless man plots evil,
    and his speech^[a] is like ^(B)a scorching fire.

⁷⁸ Let ^(A)the insolent be put to ^(B)shame,
    because they have ^(C)wronged me with falsehood;
    as for me, I will ^(D)meditate on your precepts.

¹⁵ He makes ^(A)a pit, digging it out,
    and falls into the hole that he has made.

^22 (A)May a cry be heard from their houses,
    when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them!
For ^(B)they have dug a pit to take me
    ^(C)and laid snares for my feet.

58 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?^[b]
    Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
² No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
    your hands ^(C)deal out violence on earth.

¹¹ Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me,
    nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.