And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil {is} in mine hand?

For all those {things} hath mine hand made, and all those {things} have been, saith the LORD: but to this {man} will I look, {even} to {him that is} poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Many {are} my persecutors and mine enemies; {yet} do I not decline from thy testimonies.

But {this cometh to pass}, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

Princes also did sit {and} speak against me: {but} thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

For destruction {from} God {was} a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

And it came to pass, {that} when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast {it} into the fire that {was} on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that {was} on the hearth.

{There is} none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou {art} his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this {fellow} to play the mad man in my presence? shall this {fellow} come into my house?

And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; {for} I fear God:

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard {thee}, saith the LORD.

But the former governors that {had been} before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

For all those {things} hath mine hand made, and all those {things} have been, saith the LORD: but to this {man} will I look, {even} to {him that is} poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: {neither} let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. {wrongfully: Heb. falsely}

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.