⁷ All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

²⁸ A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

⁵ Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

⁶ They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

²⁰ For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

²⁹ Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

³ Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

⁴ And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

¹⁵ Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

²⁰ Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

¹³ For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.