Psalms 55:13

Amplified Bible

But it is you, a man my equal and my counsel, My companion and my familiar friend;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But it is you, a man who is my peer,my companion and good friend!

Hebrew Names Version
But it was you, a man like me, My companion, and my familiar friend.

King James Version
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

English Standard Version
But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

New Century Version
But it is you, a person like me, my companion and good friend.

New English Translation
But it is you, a man like me, my close friend in whom I confided.

New American Standard Bible
But it is you, a man my equal, My companion and my confidant;

World English Bible
But it was you, a man like me, My companion, and my familiar friend.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But it was thou, O man, euen my companion, my guide and my familiar:

Legacy Standard Bible
But it is you, a man my equal,My close companion and my familiar friend;

Berean Standard Bible
but it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.

Contemporary English Version
But it was my closest friend, the one I trusted most.

Complete Jewish Bible
For it was not an enemy who insulted me; if it had been, I could have borne it. It was not my adversary who treated me with scorn; if it had been, I could have hidden myself.

Darby Translation
But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. …

Easy-to-Read Version
But it is you, the one so close to me, my companion, my good friend, who does this.

George Lamsa Translation
But it was you, a man mine equal, my kinsman, and my friend.

Good News Translation
But it is you, my companion, my colleague and close friend.

Lexham English Bible
But it is you, a man my equal, my friend and confidant.

Literal Translation
But it is you, a man of my rank, my friend and my associate.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
We had swete and secrete communicacion together, and louyngly walked we together in ye house of God.

American Standard Version
But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.

Bible in Basic English
But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For it was not an enemy that taunted me, then I could have borne it;

King James Version (1611)
But it was thou, a man, mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But it was euen thou whom I esteemed as my selfe: my guyde, and myne owne familier companion.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But thou, O man like minded, my guide, and my acquaintance,

English Revised Version
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But thou art a man of o wille; my leeder, and my knowun.

Update Bible Version
But it was you, [a] common man like me, My companion, and my familiar friend.

Webster's Bible Translation
But [it was] thou, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.

New King James Version
But it was you, a man my equal, My companion and my acquaintance.

New Living Translation
Instead, it is you—my equal, my companion and close friend.

New Life Bible
But it is you, a man like myself, one who has gone with me, my close friend.

New Revised Standard
But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But it is, thou, a man esteemed as mine equal, mine associate, and mine acquaintance;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(54-14) But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,

Revised Standard Version
But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

Young's Literal Translation
But thou, a man -- as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But it is you, a man my equal, My companion and my familiar friend;

Contextual Overview

⁹Confuse [my enemies], O Lord, divide their tongues [destroying their schemes], For I have seen violence and strife in the city. ¹⁰Day and night they go around her walls; Wickedness and mischief are in her midst. ¹¹Destruction is within her; Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places. ¹²For it is not an enemy who taunts me— Then I could bear it; Nor is it one who has hated me who insolently exalts himself against me— Then I could hide from him. ¹³But it is you, a man my equal and my counsel, My companion and my familiar friend;¹⁴We who had sweet fellowship together, Who walked to the house of God in company. ¹⁵Let death come deceitfully upon them; Let them go down alive to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), For evil [of every kind] is in their dwelling and in their hearts, in their midst.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a man mine equal: Heb. a man according to my rank

my guide: 2 Samuel 15:12, 2 Samuel 16:23, Jeremiah 9:4, Micah 7:5

mine acquaintance: John 19:13, Matthew 26:47-50, Mark 14:44, Mark 14:45, Luke 22:21, Luke 22:47, Luke 22:48

Reciprocal: Judges 14:20 - his friend 1 Chronicles 27:33 - companion Psalms 62:9 - of high Jeremiah 20:10 - All my familiars Obadiah 1:7 - the men of Matthew 10:36 - General Matthew 26:50 - Friend Mark 14:18 - One John 6:71 - being Philippians 2:20 - I have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But [it was] thou,.... The Targum is, "but thou Ahithophel"; of whom the words are literally to be understood, and so they are in the Talmud u; and mystically and typically of Judas;

a man mine equal; "a man", and not a beast, nor a devil; but a man, from whom humanity, kindness, and tenderness might have been expected; though both Ahithophel and Judas acted the part of a devil; and the latter is expressly called one, John 6:70; "mine equal"; or like unto me; as the Targum. Ahithophel was not equal to David in dignity, as the king of Israel; nor in gifts, as the sweet psalmist of Israel; nor in grace as he; but as a man, a mortal dying man: kings and subjects are of the same blood, equally liable to death, and in the grave will be manifestly on a level: or rather the sense is, that he was in his esteem and affliction as himself; he was his friend that he loved as his own soul: so Judas could not be in every sense equal to Christ who is Jehovah's fellow, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God. Indeed as a man he was like unto him; a frail, mortal man, though not sinless as Christ. The word כערכי may be rendered "according to my appointment" w, ordination, or constitution; Judas being a man appointed and ordained to be an apostle of Christ with the rest: or, "according to my esteem" x; being had in great esteem and familiarity with Christ: or, "according to my order" y, rank and class; being taken into his family, admitted to his table, where be sat down and ate with him, as if he was his equal;

my guide: or "governor" z. Ahithophel was not governor over David; but was made a governor by him: he was one of his dukes or nobles, as the word is rendered in Genesis 36:15, was raised to great dignity by him; perhaps was chief minister of state: it is certain he was his counsellor, and his counsel was with him as the oracle of God,

1 Chronicles 27:33; he was his guide in civil affairs; he was directed by his advice, and it may be was president of his privy council. Judas was not only the guide of them to Christ who took him, Acts 1:16; but when the apostles were sent out two by two before the face of Christ, to preach where he himself should come, Judas was sent also, Mark 6:7;

and mine acquaintance: one well known to him, as Ahithophel was to David, and Judas to Christ, his friend and companion, in whom he confided, and who ate of his bread; and all these characters are so many aggravations of his treachery and wickedness.

u T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 106. 2. Pirke Abot, c. 6. s. 3. w "Secundum dispositionem, sc. ordinationem et constitutionem meam", Calvinus in Michaelis. x "Juxta estimationem meam", Vatablus, Gejerus, Michaelis; "qui par mihi estimatus est", Piscator. y "Secundum ordinem meum", Mollerus. z אלופי "dux meus", Pagninus, Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "princeps meus", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But it was thou, a man mine equal - Margin, “a man according to my rank.” Septuagint, ἰσόψυχε isopsuche, equal-souled, like-souled, “second self” (Thompson); Vulgate, “unanimus,” of the same mind; Luther, “Geselle,” companion. The Hebrew word used here - ערך ‛êrek - means properly a row or pile, as of the showbread piled one loaf on another, Exodus 40:23; then it would naturally mean one of the same row or pile; of the same rank or condition. The word also means price, estimation, or value, Job 28:13; Leviticus 5:15, Leviticus 5:18; Leviticus 6:6. Here the expression may mean a man “according to my estimation, value, or price;” that is, of the same value as myself (Gesenius, Lexicon); or more probably it means a man of my own rank; according to my condition; that is, a man whom I esteemed as my equal, or whom I regarded and treated as a friend.

My guide - The word used here properly denotes one who is familiar - a friend - from the verb אלף 'âlaph - to be associated with; to be familiar; to be accustomed to. The noun is frequently used to denote a military leader - the head of a tribe - a chieftain; and is, in this sense, several times employed in Genesis 36:0 to denote the leaders or princes of the Edomites, where it is rendered duke. But here it seems to be used, not in the sense of a leader or a guide, but of a familiar friend.

And mine acquaintance - The word used here is derived from the verb to know - ידע yâda‛ - and the proper idea is that of “one well known” by us; that is, one who keeps no secrets from us, but who permits us to understand him thoroughly. The phrase “mine acquaintance” is a feeble expression, and does not convey the full force of the original, which denotes a more intimate friend than would be suggested by the word “acquaintance.” It is language applied to one whom we thoroughly “know,” and who “knows us;” and this exists only in the case of very intimate friends. All the expressions used in this verse would probably be applicable to Ahithophel, and to the intimacy between him and David.