Psalms 38:20
Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
In Context
19Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
21Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:4Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.
1 Samuel 23:12So David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” “They will,” said the LORD.
1 Samuel 25:21Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.
Psalms 25:19Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.
Psalms 35:19Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
Psalms 142:7Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.
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 →