4. By [the help of] God I will praise His word; on God I lean, rely, and confidently put my trust; I will not fear. What can man, who is flesh, do to me?
5. All day long they twist my words and trouble my affairs; all their thoughts are against me for evil and my hurt.
6. They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they watch my steps, even as they have [expectantly] waited for my life.
7. They think to escape with iniquity, and shall they? In Your indignation bring down the peoples, O God.
8. You number and record my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle–are they not in Your book?