Psalms 38:16
For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified [themselves] against me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
15For in thee, Jehovah, do I hope: *thou* wilt answer, O Lord my God.
17For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
Psalms 94:18When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:13-22
Sorrowful Complaints. 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O Lord , do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves… Read the whole commentary →