Psalms 35:12
They recompense me with evil in place of good, [bringing] bereavement on my soul.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
In Context
11There rise up witnesses of violence; concerning what I know not they question me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:15And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may put him to death.
1 Samuel 22:13And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou didst give him bread, and a sword, and hast asked counsel for him of God, that he should rise to lie in wait against me, as it is this day!
1 Chronicles 19:4Chanun thereupon took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle as far as the hip-bone, and sent them away.
Psalms 38:21(38:22) Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.
Psalms 109:5And they impose evil on me in recompense for good, and hatred in lieu of my love.
Proverbs 17:13Whoso bestoweth evil in return 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 →