Bible Verses About Malice

He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Commit thyself unto Jehovah; let him deliver him: Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.

They reward me evil for good, Tothe bereaving of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Mine enemies speak evil against me, saying, When will he die, and his name perish?

And if he come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; His heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.

An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him; And now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.

All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

They run and prepare themselves without my fault: Awake thou to help me, and behold.

They return at evening, they howl like a dog, And go round about the city.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, say they, doth hear?

How long will ye set upon a man, That ye may slay him, all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. [Selah