Psalms 35:12
They repaid me evil for good : to the depriving me of my soul.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
In Context
11Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:15And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.
1 Samuel 22:13And Saul said to him: Why have you conspired against me, thou, and the son of Isai, and thou hast given him bread and a sword, and hast consulted the Lord for him, that he should rise up against me, continuing a traitor to this day.
1 Chronicles 19:4Wherefore Hanon shaved the heads and beards of the servants of David, and cut away their garments from the buttocks to the feet, and sent them away.
Psalms 38:21They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I followed goodness.
Psalms 109:5And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love.
Proverbs 17:13He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
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 →