Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
They also who render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing that is good.
New American Standard Bible
They
King James Version
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
Holman Bible
attack me for pursuing good.
International Standard Version
They reward my good with evil, opposing me because I seek to do good.
American Standard Version
They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
Amplified
They repay evil for good, they attack and try to kill me,
Because I follow what is good.
Darby Translation
And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.
Julia Smith Translation
And mine enemies living, they were strong: and they hating me with falsehood were multiplied.
King James 2000
They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And those who repay evil in return for good accuse me in return for my pursuing good.
Modern King James verseion
And those who give evil for good oppose me, because I follow good.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They also that reward evil for good are against me, because I follow the thing that is good.
NET Bible
They repay me evil for the good I have done; though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me.
New Heart English Bible
They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
The Emphasized Bible
Even they who are repaying evil for good, accuse me because I pursue the good.
Webster
They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.
World English Bible
They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
Youngs Literal Translation
And those paying evil for good accuse me, Because of my pursuing good.
Themes
Evil » Social in the church » In politics
Evil for good » Evil for good, the returning of
Topics
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 38:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Of A Suffering Sinner
19 But my enemies are energetic, [and] are strong, and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied. 20 They also who render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing that is good. 21 Forsake me not, O LORD. O my God, be not far from me.
Cross References
Psalm 35:12
They reward me evil for good, [to] the bereaving of my soul.
1 John 3:12
Not as Cain. He was of the wicked, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were wrong, and his brother's right.
1 Samuel 19:4-6
And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against thee, and because his works have been very good toward thee.
1 Samuel 23:5
And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 Samuel 23:12
Then David said, Will the men of Keilah deliver up me and my men into the hand of Saul? And LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
1 Samuel 25:16
They were a wall to us both by night and by day all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him, and he has returned me evil for good.
Psalm 7:4
if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, (yea, I have delivered him without cause who was my adversary),
Psalm 109:3-5
They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who have been persecuted because of righteousness, because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.
John 10:32
Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from my Father. Because of them, which work do ye stone me?
1 Peter 3:13
And who is he who will harm you, if ye become imitators of the good?
1 Peter 3:17-18
For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God desires, than for doing evil.
1 Peter 4:14-16
Blessed are ye if ye are reviled for the name of Christ, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. From them he is indeed blasphemed, but from you he is glorified.