The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,

And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.