Psalm 140:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
The arrogant have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path.

New Living Translation
The proud have set a trap to catch me; they have stretched out a net; they have placed traps all along the way. Interlude

English Standard Version
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah

Berean Study Bible
The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

New American Standard Bible
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and snares; They have spread a net at the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah

NASB 1995
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah.

NASB 1977
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah.

Amplified Bible
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set traps for me. Selah.

Christian Standard Bible
The proud hide a trap with ropes for me; they spread a net along the path and set snares for me. Selah

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The proud hide a trap with ropes for me; they spread a net along the path and set snares for me. Selah

Contemporary English Version
Those proud people have hidden traps and nets to catch me as I walk.

Good News Translation
The proud have set a trap for me; they have laid their snares, and along the path they have set traps to catch me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Arrogant people have laid a trap for me. They have spread out a net with ropes. They have set traps for me along the road. [Selah]

International Standard Version
The arrogant have laid a trap for me; they have spread a net with ropes, lining it with snares along the way. Interlude

NET Bible
Proud men hide a snare for me; evil men spread a net by the path; they set traps for me. (Selah)
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

New King James Version
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set traps for me. Selah

King James 2000 Bible
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

New Heart English Bible
The 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.

World English Bible
The 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.

American King James Version
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

American Standard Version
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah

A Faithful Version
The proud have hidden a snare and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

Darby Bible Translation
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah.

English Revised Version
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side; they have set gins for me. Selah

Webster's Bible Translation
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side: they have set gins for me. Selah.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spread a net abroade with coardes in the high wayes: they haue set trappes for me. Selah.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The proude haue layed a snare for me, & spred a nett abrode with coardes, yee & sett trappes in my waye.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The proud hid a snare for me—and cords, "" They spread a net by the side of the path, "" They have set snares for me. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

Smith's Literal Translation
The proud hid a snare for me, and cords; they spread a net at the hand of the way; they set snares for me. Silence.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
the proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The arrogant have hidden a snare for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare. They have placed a stumbling block for me near the road.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the proud have hidden snares for me and they spread the cords of their nets upon my path and cast nets over me!

Lamsa Bible
The proud have hid a snare for me; the cords of their net have they spread over my paths; they have set a trap for me.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The proud have hid a snare for me, and have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; they set a stumbling-block for me near the path. Pause.
















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