Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I know not.

New American Standard Bible

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

King James Version

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

Holman Bible

Malicious witnesses come forward;
they question me about things I do not know.

International Standard Version

False witnesses stepped forward and questioned me concerning things about which I knew nothing.

American Standard Version

Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not.

Amplified


Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

Bible in Basic English

False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

Darby Translation

Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not.

Julia Smith Translation

Witnesses of wrong will rise up; they will ask me what I knew not.

King James 2000

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Violent witnesses rise up; they ask me [concerning] what I do not know.

Modern King James verseion

Cruel witnesses rose up; they asked of me that which I never knew.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

False witnesses are risen up, and lay to my charge things that I know not.

NET Bible

Violent men perjure themselves, and falsely accuse me.

New Heart English Bible

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I do not know about.

The Emphasized Bible

There rise up witnesses helping forward violence and wrong, What I know not, they demand of me:

Webster

False witnesses arose; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

World English Bible

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.

Youngs Literal Translation

Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer For Victory

10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him? 11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I know not. 12 They reward me evil for good, [to] the bereaving of my soul.


Cross References

Psalm 27:12

Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries. For FALSE witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

1 Samuel 24:9

And David said to Saul, Why do thou hearken to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks thy hurt?

1 Samuel 25:10

And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master.

Matthew 26:59-60

Now the chief priests and the elders and the whole council sought FALSE testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death,

Acts 6:13

And they put forward FALSE witnesses who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous sayings against the holy place, and the law.

Acts 24:5-6

For we have found this man a plague, who even instigates sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

Acts 24:12-13

And they found me neither in the temple disputing against any man, nor making a gang of a group, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.

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