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Salmos 38:12
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Y los que buscaban mi alma armaron lazos; Y los que procuraban mi mal hablaban iniquidades, Y meditaban fraudes todo el d�a.
Los que buscaban mi alma tendieron lazos; y los que procuraban mi mal hablaban iniquidades, y meditaban fraudes todo el d�a.
Y los que buscaban mi alma armaron lazos; y los que procuraban mi mal hablaban iniquidades, y todo el d�a meditaban fraudes.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
lay snares: Psalms 10:9, Psalms 64:2-5, Psalms 119:110, Psalms 140:5, Psalms 141:9, 2 Samuel 17:1-3, Luke 20:19, Luke 20:20
speak: Psalms 35:20, Psalms 62:3, Psalms 62:4, 2 Samuel 16:7, 2 Samuel 16:8, Luke 20:21, Luke 20:22
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 18:21 - a snare 1 Samuel 24:2 - and went 1 Samuel 26:2 - Saul arose Nehemiah 6:8 - thou feignest Psalms 12:2 - They Psalms 35:4 - that Psalms 36:4 - deviseth Psalms 59:3 - they Psalms 63:9 - seek Psalms 119:95 - wicked Psalms 140:2 - imagine Jeremiah 18:22 - and hid Matthew 26:63 - Jesus Mark 12:13 - they send Luke 6:7 - watched John 8:6 - as though 1 Peter 2:23 - when he was
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They also that seek after my life,.... His avowed and implacable enemies, whom nothing would satisfy but the taking away of his life: these came too near him; for these, he says,
lay snares [for me], as Satan does for the souls of men, as the Jews did for Christ, and as wicked men do for the saints, Psalms 124:7;
and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things; to the injury of his character and reputation:
and imagine deceits all the day long; contrive artful schemes to deceive; see Psalms 35:20.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They also that seek after my life - This was a new aggravation of his affliction, that those who were his enemies now sought to accomplish their purposes against him with better hopes of success, by taking advantage of his sickness.
Lay snares for me - On the meaning of this phrase, see the notes at Psalms 9:15. The idea here is that they sought this opportunity of ensnaring or entrapping him so as to ruin him. They took advantage of the fact that he was weak and helpless, and of the fact that he was forsaken or abandoned by his friends, to accomplish his ruin. how this was done is not stated. It might have been by their coming on him when he was thus helpless; or it might have been by endeavoring in his weak condition to extort confessions or promises from him that might be turned to his ruin. An enemy may hope to succeed much better when the one opposed is sick than when he is well, and may take advantage of his weak state of body and mind, and of the fact that he seems to be forsaken by all, to accomplish what could not be done if he were in the enjoyment of health, or sustained by powerful friends, or by a public opinion in his favor.
And they that seek my hurt - They who seek to injure me.
Speak mischievous things - Slanderous words. They charge on me things that are false, and that tend to injure me. The very fact that he was thus afflicted, they might urge (in accordance with a prevailing belief, and with the conviction of the psalmist also, Psalms 38:3-5) as a proof of guilt. This was done by the three friends of Job; and the enemies of the psalmist may thus have taken advantage of his sickness to circulate false reports about him which he could not then well meet.
And imagine deceits - Imagine or feign deceitful things; things which they know to be false or unfounded.
All the day long - Constantly. They seem to have no other employment. See Psalms 35:20.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 38:12. They also that seek after my life — They act towards me as huntsmen after their prey; they lay snares to take away my life. Perhaps this means only that they wished for his death, and would have been glad to have had it in their power to end his days. Others spoke all manner of evil of him, and told falsities against him all the day long.
