“Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 31 contains 24 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.