23. To your face their speech will be sweet,and they will express amazementat your words.But later they will distort what they said,and they will use your own wordsagainst you.
24. I’ve hated many things,but nothing compares with them.Even the Lord will hate them.
25. Those who throw stones up highthrow them on their own heads,and a deceitful blowwill open up wounds.
26. Whoever digs a hole will fall into it,and whoever sets a trapwill get caught in it.
27. Evil will roll back upon thosewho practice evil,and they will never knowwhere it came from.
28. Mocking and blamingbelong to the arrogant,and vengeance, like a lion,will lie in wait for them.
29. Those who rejoice when godly people fallwill get caught in a trap,and pain will consume thembefore their death.
30. Wrath and anger—these also are detestable,and they will possess the sinful person.