2 The loyal one* has perished from the earth,* and among mankind* there is no upright one.+ All of them, for bloodshed they lie in wait.+ They hunt, everyone his own brother, with a dragnet.+
21 Above all things, do not let them persuade you, for more than forty men of theirs are lying in wait+ for him, and they have bound themselves with a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have done away with him;+ and they are now ready, waiting for the promise from you.”