Psalms 35:12

New King James Version

They reward me evil for good, To the sorrow of my soul.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They repay me evil for good,making me desolate.

Hebrew Names Version
They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.

King James Version
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

English Standard Version
They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft.

New Century Version
They repay me with evil for the good I have done, and they make me very sad.

New English Translation
They repay me evil for the good I have done; I am overwhelmed with sorrow.

Amplified Bible
They repay me evil for good, To the sorrow of my soul.

New American Standard Bible
They repay me evil for good, To the bereavement of my soul.

World English Bible
They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.

Legacy Standard Bible
They repay me evil for good,It is bereavement to my soul.

Berean Standard Bible
They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

Contemporary English Version
They repay evil for good, and I feel all alone.

Complete Jewish Bible
They repay me evil for good; it makes me feel desolate as a parent bereaved.

Darby Translation
They reward me evil for good, [to] the bereavement of my soul.

Easy-to-Read Version
They pay me back evil for the good I have done. They make me so very sad.

George Lamsa Translation
They rewarded me evil for good, and they destroyed my reputation among men.

Good News Translation
They pay me back evil for good, and I sink in despair.

Lexham English Bible
They repay me evil in place of good. It is bereavement to my soul.

Literal Translation
they rewarded me evil for good, bereaving my soul.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They rewarde me euell for good, to the greate discomforth of my soule.

American Standard Version
They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.

Bible in Basic English
They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They repay me evil for good; bereavement is come to my soul.

King James Version (1611)
They rewarded mee euill for good, to the spoiling of my soule.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They rewarded me euill for good: to the great discomfort of my soule.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They rewarded me evil for good, and bereavement to my soul.

English Revised Version
They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei yeldiden to me yuels for goodis; bareynnesse to my soule.

Update Bible Version
They reward me evil for good, [To] the bereaving of my soul.

Webster's Bible Translation
They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.

New Living Translation
They repay me evil for good. I am sick with despair.

New Life Bible
They pay me what is bad in return for what is good. My soul is sad.

New Revised Standard
They repay me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They repay me evil for good, Bereaving my soul.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(34-12) They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.

Revised Standard Version
They requite me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.

Young's Literal Translation
They pay me evil for good, bereaving my soul,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They repay me evil for good, To the bereavement of my soul.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Fierce witnesses rise up; They ask me things that I do not know. ¹² They reward me evil for good, To the sorrow of my soul. ¹³ But as for me, when they were sick, My clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; And my prayer would return to my own heart. ¹⁴ I paced about as though he were my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother. ¹⁵ But in my adversity they rejoiced And gathered together; Attackers gathered against me, And I did not know it; They tore at me and did not cease; ¹⁶ With ungodly mockers at feasts They gnashed at me with their teeth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

They: Psalms 38:20, Psalms 109:3-5, 1 Samuel 19:4, 1 Samuel 19:5, 1 Samuel 19:15, 1 Samuel 22:13, 1 Samuel 22:14, Proverbs 17:13, Jeremiah 18:20, John 10:32

spoiling: Heb. depriving, 1 Samuel 20:31-33, Luke 23:21-23

my soul: Or, "my life," as the word nephesh frequently denotes.

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:4 - Wherefore 1 Samuel 25:21 - he hath requited 1 Chronicles 19:4 - took David's 2 Chronicles 20:11 - how they reward us Psalms 17:9 - deadly enemies Psalms 69:4 - being Psalms 109:4 - For my Matthew 26:59 - sought

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 15:18
On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates--

Genesis 28:13
And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.

Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

Genesis 35:3
Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone."

Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.

Genesis 35:14
So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.

Genesis 35:17
Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Do not fear; you will have this son also."

Genesis 35:21
Then Israel journeyed and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

Genesis 48:4
and said to me, "Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" t; 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.

t שכול "orbitatem", Montanus, Vatablus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They rewarded me evil for good - They recompensed, or returned evil instead of good. The manner in which they did it he states in the following verses.

To the spoiling of my soul - Margin, “depriving.” The Hebrew word means “the being forsaken,” or “abandoned.” The idea is, that owing to this conduct he was forsaken or abandoned by all in whom he might have put confidence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 35:12. To the spoiling of my soul — To destroy my life; so נפש nephesh should be translated in a multitude of places, where our translators have used the word soul.