19-21 Don’t let these liars, my enemies,
    have a party at my expense,
Those who hate me for no reason,
    winking and rolling their eyes.
No good is going to come
    from that crowd;
They spend all their time cooking up gossip
    against those who mind their own business.
They open their mouths
    in ugly grins,
Mocking, “Ha-ha, ha-ha, thought you’d get away with it?
    We’ve caught you hands down!”

22 Don’t you see what they’re doing, God?
    You’re not going to let them
Get by with it, are you? Not going to walk off
    without doing something, are you?

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20 They do not speak peaceably,
    but devise false accusations(A)
    against those who live quietly in the land.
21 They sneer(B) at me and say, “Aha! Aha!(C)
    With our own eyes we have seen it.”

22 Lord, you have seen(D) this; do not be silent.
    Do not be far(E) from me, Lord.

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