Psalms 35:12

New Life Version

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

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

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

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 People come telling lies. They ask me of things that I do not know. ¹² They pay me what is bad in return for what is good. My soul is sad. ¹³ But when they were sick, I put on clothes made from hair. With no pride in my soul, I would not eat. And I prayed with my head on my chest. ¹⁴ I went about as if it were my friend or brother. I put my head down in sorrow, like one crying for his mother. ¹⁵ But when I would fall, they would gather together in joy. Those who say things to hurt people would gather against me. I did not know them. They spoke against me without stopping. ¹⁶ They ground their teeth at me like bad people making fun of others at a special supper.

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 showed Himself to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children and to your children's children." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord Who had shown Himself to him.

Genesis 15:18
The Lord made an agreement with Abram on that day. He said, "I have given this land to your children and to their children's children, from the river of Egypt as far as the big Euphrates River,

Genesis 28:13
And he saw the Lord standing above them. He said, "I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac. I will give to you and your children after you the land where you are lying.

Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Get ready and go to Bethel to live. Make an altar there to God, Who showed Himself to you when you ran away from your brother Esau."

Genesis 35:3
Then let us get ready and go to Bethel. I will make an altar there to God, Who answered me in the day of my trouble, and was with me every place I went."

Genesis 35:4
So they gave to Jacob all the strange gods they had, and the gold objects which they wore in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the tree near Shechem.

Genesis 35:14
Jacob set up a pillar of stone in the place where He had spoken with him. And he poured a drink offering and also oil on it.

Genesis 35:17
And while she was suffering, the woman who was helping her said to her, "Do not be afraid. For now you have another son."

Genesis 35:21
Then Israel traveled on, and put up his tent on the other side of the tall building of Eder.

Genesis 48:4
He said to me, ‘See, I will give you many children. I will make you a group of nations. And I will give this land to your children and to your children's children after you. It will belong to them forever.'

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.