For the director of music. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." Of David. A miktam. Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?
NIV
To the Chief Musician; [set to the tune of] "Do Not Destroy." A record of memorable thoughts of David. DO YOU indeed in silence speak righteousness, O you mighty ones? [Or is the righteousness, rightness, and justice you should speak quite dumb?] Do you judge fairly and uprightly, O you sons of men?
AMP
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
KJV
May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.
NIV
Let them be as a snail dissolving slime as it passes on or as a festering sore which wastes away, like [the child to which] a woman gives untimely birth that has not seen the sun.
AMP
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
KJV
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns – whether they be green or dry – the wicked will be swept away.
NIV
Before your pots can feel the thorns [that are placed under them for fuel], He will take them away as with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.
AMP
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
KJV
