Parallel Verses

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.

A Conservative Version

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

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 will say: O Jehovah, who can compare with you? You rescue the weak person from the one who is too strong for him and weak and needy people from the one who robs them. 11 Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.
12 I am devastated because they pay me back with evil instead of good.

Cross References

Psalm 27:12

Do not surrender me to the will of my opponents. False witnesses have risen against me. They breathe out violence.

1 Samuel 24:9

David asked Saul: Why do you listen to rumors that I am trying to harm you?

1 Samuel 25:10

This is what he said: Who does this David think he is? That son of Jesse is just one more slave on the run from his master. There are too many of them now days.

Matthew 26:59-60

The chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus. They wanted to put him to death.

Acts 6:13

They brought false witnesses, which said: This man will not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Acts 24:5-6

We have found this man to be a troublemaker who stirs up sedition (resists lawful authority) among all the Jews throughout the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Acts 24:12-13

They did not find me in the Temple, in the synagogues nor in the city disputing with any man. Neither did I cause a riot with the people.

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