Psalms 38:12
Those also who seek after my life lay snares [for me]. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
13But I, as a deaf man, hear not. And I am as a mute man who opens not his mouth.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.
Psalms 10:9He lurks in secret as a lion in his covert. He lays in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net.
Psalms 35:4Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise my hurt.
Psalms 41:5My enemies speak evil against me, [saying], When will he die, and his name perish?
Psalms 62:3How long will ye set upon a man, that ye may kill, all of you, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Psalms 69:9For the zeal of thy house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach thee have fallen upon me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:2-12
Sorrowful Complaints. 1 O Lord , rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7… Read the whole commentary →