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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 38, Verse 20

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19
But mine enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
King James Version
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow [the thing that] good [is].
American Standard Version
They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
New English Translation
They repay me evil for the good I have done; though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me.
World English Bible
They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
21
Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
22
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
1
To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] spake I with my tongue,
4
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].
5
Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
8
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.