Psalms 119:85
“The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.”
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.”
“An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.”
“The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.”
“For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.”
“Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.”