The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. Dr. Kay translates, "Through the pride of the wicked man the poor is set on fire;" and our Revisers, "In the pride of the wicked, the poor is hotly pursued;" and so (nearly) the LXX; the Vulgate, Aquila, Symmachus, Kohler, Hengstenberg, and others.
The Authorized Version paraphrases rather than translates; but it does not misrepresent the general sense, which is a complaint that the poor are persecuted by the wicked. Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined (comp.
Psalms 35:8, "Let his net that he hath hid catch himself;" and Psalms 141:10, "Let the wicked fall into their own nets;" see also Psalms 7:15, Psalms 7:16; Psalms 9:15; Proverbs 5:22; Proverbs 26:27: Ecclesiastes 10:8).
Some, however, translate, "They (i.e. the poor) are ensnared in the devices which they (i.e. the wicked) have imagined;" and this is certainly a possible rendering. Hengstenberg regards it as preferable to the other "on account of the parallelism and connection."