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Psalm 38:12 KJV
Psalms · chapter 38 · verse 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.Psalm 38:12 · King James Version
Psalm 38:12 in context
10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12They 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.
13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
14Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- imaginehâgâhto murmurH1897 →
- deceitsmirmâhfraudH4820 →
- snaresnâqashto entrap , literally or figurativelyH5367 →
- speakdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- seekbâqashto search outH1245 →
- lifenepheshproperly, a breathing creatureH5315 →
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In these verses, I. David complains of the power and malice of his enemies, who, it should seem, not only took occasion from the weakness of his body and the trouble of his mind to insult over him, but took advantage thence to do him a mischief.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-22