Mazmur 37:32

37:32 Evil men set an ambush for the godly

and try to kill them. ¹ 

Mazmur 38:12

38:12 Those who seek my life try to entrap me; ² 

those who want to harm me speak destructive words;

all day long they say deceitful things.

[37:32]  ¹ tn Heb “an evil [one] watches the godly [one] and seeks to kill him.” The singular forms are used in a representative sense; the typical evildoer and godly individual are in view. The active participles describe characteristic behavior.

[38:12]  ² tn Heb “lay snares.”