Salmos 35:12

12 Me devuelven mal por bien,y eso me hiere en el alma;

Salmos 35:12 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 35:12

They rewarded me evil for good
For the good David did in killing Goliath, and slaying his ten thousands of the Philistines, and thereby saving his king and country, Saul and his courtiers envied him, and sought to slay him: so our Lord Jesus Christ, for all the good he did to the Jews, by healing their bodies of diseases, and preaching the Gospel to them for the benefit of their souls, was rewarded with reproaches and persecutions, and at last with the shameful death of the cross; and in like manner are his people used; but this is an evil that shall not go unpunished; see ( Proverbs 17:13 ) . It is added,

[to] the spoiling of my soul;
or "to the bereaving of it" ^F20; causing it to be fatherless; that is, to the bereaving it of its joy, peace, and comfort; so fatherless is put for comfortless, ( John 14:18 ) ; or to the taking away of his soul, which being separated from the body, its companion is left alone, as one that is fatherless.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (lwkv) "orbitatem", Montanus, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth.

Salmos 35:12 In-Context

10 así todo mi ser exclamará:«¿Quién como tú, SEÑOR?Tú libras de los poderosos a los pobres;a los pobres y necesitados librasde aquellos que los explotan».

11 Se presentan testigos despiadadosy me preguntan cosas que yo ignoro.

12 Me devuelven mal por bien,y eso me hiere en el alma;

13 pues cuando ellos enfermabanyo me vestía de luto,me afligía y ayunaba.¡Ay, si pudiera retractarme de mis oraciones!

14 Me vestía yo de luto,como por un amigo o un hermano.Afligido, inclinaba la cabeza,como si llorara por mi madre.