Psalms 119:21

119:21 You reprimand arrogant people.

Those who stray from your commands are doomed. ¹ 

Psalms 119:122

119:122 Guarantee the welfare of your servant! ² 

Do not let the arrogant oppress me!

Psalms 119:51

119:51 Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. ³ 

Yet I do not turn aside from your law.

Psalms 119:78

119:78 May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me! ⁴ 

But I meditate on your precepts.

Psalms 119:85

119:85 The arrogant dig pits to trap me, ⁵ 

which violates your law. ⁶ 

Psalms 86:14

86:14 O God, arrogant men attack me; ⁷ 

a gang ⁸  of ruthless men, who do not respect you, seek my life. ⁹ 

Psalms 119:69

119:69 Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, ¹⁰ 

but I observe your precepts with all my heart.

[119:21]  ¹ tn Heb “accursed.” The traditional punctuation of the Hebrew text takes “accursed” with the previous line (“arrogant, accursed ones”), but it is preferable to take it with the second line as the predicate of the statement.

[119:122]  ² tn Heb “be surety for your servant for good.”

[119:51]  ³ tn Heb “scoff at me to excess.”

[119:78]  ⁴ tn Heb “for [with] falsehood they have denied me justice.”

[119:85]  ⁵ tn Heb “for me.”

[119:85]  ⁶ tn Heb “which [is] not according to your law.”

[86:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “rise up against me.”

[86:14]  ⁷ tn Or “assembly.”

[86:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “seek my life and do not set you before them.” See Ps 54:3.

[119:69]  ⁷ tn Heb “smear over me a lie.”