Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer For Victory

10 All my bones say, 'Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.' 11 Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me. 12 They pay me evil for good, bereaving my soul,

Cross References

Psalm 27:12

Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

1 Samuel 24:9

And David saith to Saul, 'Why dost thou hear the words of man, saying, Lo, David is seeking thine evil?

1 Samuel 25:10

And Nabal answereth the servants of David and saith, 'Who is David, and who the son of Jesse? to-day have servants been multiplied who are breaking away each from his master;

Matthew 26:59-60

And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

Acts 6:13

they set up also false witnesses, saying, 'This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,

Acts 24:5-6

for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes --

Acts 24:12-13

and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

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