| International Standard Version | King James Bible |
| 1How is it that by remaining silent you can speak righteously? How can you judge people fairly? | 1To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? |
| 2As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent! | 2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. |
| 3The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth. | 3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. |
| 4Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears, | 4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; |
| 5refusing to hear the voice of the snake charmer, the cunning enchanter. | 5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. |
| 6God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; LORD, break the fangs of the young lions! | 6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. |
| 7May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows. | 7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. |
| 8May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun. | 8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. |
| 9Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns— whether green or ablaze— wrath will sweep them away like a storm. | 9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. |
| 10The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked. | 10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
| 11A person will say, "Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth." | 11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. |
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