New Revised Standard Version
When he is tried, let him be found guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin.

Contemporary English Version
Try him and find him guilty! Consider his prayers a lie.

New American Bible
That he may be judged and found guilty, that his plea may be in vain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.

When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin.

be condemned.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

and let

2 Samuel 15:7,8 And after forty years, Absalom said to king David: Let me go, and pay my vows which I have vowed to the Lord in Hebron. . . .

Proverbs 15:8 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.

Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be an abomination.

Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 66:3 He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations.

Matthew 23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.