Psalms 35:16
With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
In Context
Cross References
Job 16:9His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing [them].
John 18:28They lead therefore Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium; and it was early morn. And *they* entered not into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but eat the passover.
1 Corinthians 5:8so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 35:12-17
Prayer for Deliverance; Sorrowful Complaints. 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves… Read the whole commentary →