“As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 17 contains 15 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.