Psalm 64:5 They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, "Who will see it?"

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, "Who will see it?"

English Standard Version
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see them?”

New American Standard Bible
They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose; They talk of laying snares secretly; They say, "Who can see them?"

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They encourage each other in an evil plan; they talk about hiding traps and say," Who will see them?"

International Standard Version
They concoct an evil scheme for themselves; they enumerate their hidden snares; they say, "Who will see them?"

American Standard Version
They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?

Douay-Rheims Bible
They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

Darby Bible Translation
They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?

Young's Literal Translation
They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

Cross References

Job 22:13
And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Psalm 10:11
He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

Psalm 140:5
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.

Psalm 141:9
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

Jeremiah 36:24
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

64:1-6 The psalmist earnestly begs of God to preserve him from disquieting fear. The tongue is a little member, but it boasts great things. The upright man is the mark at which the wicked aim, they cannot speak peaceably either of him or to him. There is no guard against a false tongue. It is bad to do wrong, but worse to encourage ourselves and one another in it. It is a sign that the heart is hardened to the greatest degree, when it is thus fully set to do evil. A practical disbelief of God's knowledge of all things, is at the bottom of every wickedness. The benefit of a good cause and a good conscience, appears most when nothing can help a man against his enemies, save God alone, who is always a present help.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. A sentiment here more fully presented, by depicting their deliberate malice.