Psalms 64:5

WEB

⁵They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

KJV

⁵They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

BSB

⁵They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

FBV

⁵They encourage one another to do evil, planning how to secretly trap people, telling themselves, “Nobody will notice.”

Extra References

Psalms 140:5

⁵The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

Psalms 10:11

¹¹He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

Job 22:13

¹³You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Psalms 94:7

⁷They say, “The LORD^[+] will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

¹²Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘The LORD doesn’t see us. The LORD has forsaken the land.’”

Psalms 59:7

⁷Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

1 Samuel 23:19-23

¹⁹Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? ²⁰Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”

²¹Saul said, “You are blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me. ²²Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning. ²³See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

Isaiah 41:6

⁶Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”

Proverbs 1:11-14

¹¹If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. ¹²Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol,^[+] and whole, like those who go down into the pit. ¹³We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder. ¹⁴You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse”—

Numbers 22:6

⁶Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”