They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
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Gill's Exposition
Forsake me not, O Lord,.... Or continue not to forsake; for he seems to have been under divine desertion, and might be under apprehensions that God had utterly forsaken him; which he entreats he would…
Barnes' Notes
They also that render evil for good - They whose characteristic it is to return evil for good, are opposed to me. This implies that those who were now seeking his ruin had been formerly benefitted by…
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,…
Cambridge Bible
Yea, and rewarding evil for good
They are adversaries unto me, for my following of good.
Not, in return for my pursuit of good in general, but, in return for the good I have striven to do for them.…
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