5Let them be as chaff before the wind, the angel of the LORD thrusting them.
6Let their way be dark and slippery, the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
7For without cause have they hid for me the pit, even their net, without cause have they digged for my soul.
8Let destruction come upon him unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself; with destruction let him fall therein.
9And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD; it shall rejoice in His salvation.
10All my bones shall say: 'LORD, who is like unto Thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?'
11Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
12They repay me evil for good; bereavement is come to my soul.
13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer, may it return into mine own bosom.
14I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother; I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother.
15But when I halt they rejoice, and gather themselves together; the abjects gather themselves together against me, and those whom I know not; they tear me, and cease not;