Psalms 35:12
They pay me evil for good, bereaving my soul,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
In Context
11Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:15And Saul sendeth the messengers to see David, saying, 'Bring him up in the bed unto me,' — to put him to death.
1 Samuel 22:13And Saul saith unto him, 'Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, by thy giving to him bread and a sword, and to ask for him at God, to rise against me, to lie in wait, as [at] this day?'
1 Chronicles 19:4And Hanun taketh the servants of David, and shaveth them, and cutteth their long robes in the midst, unto the buttocks, and sendeth them away.
Psalms 38:21Do not forsake me, O Jehovah, My God, be not far from me,
Psalms 109:5And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
Proverbs 17:13Whoso is returning evil for good, Evil moveth not 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 →