Psalms 35:12
They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.
BSB
ASV
They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.
KJV
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
"They rewarded me evil for good." This is devilish; but men have learned the lesson well of the old Destroyer, and practise it most perfectly. "To the spoiling of my soul." They robbed him of comfort, and even would have taken his life had it not been for special rescues from the hand of God. The wicked would strip the righteous naked to their very soul: they know no pity. There are only such limits to human malice as God himself may see fit to place.
Herein he was a type of Christ, to whom this wicked world was very ungrateful. Many good works have I shown you from my Father; for which of those do you stone me?
Though they rendered evil for good, he showed a tender sympathy in their affliction. spoiling--literally, "bereavement." The usual modes of showing grief are made, as figures, to express his sorrow.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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Psalms 38:20Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
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Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Proverbs 17:13If anyone returns evil for good, evil will never leave his house.
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In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
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Jeremiah 18:20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
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For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah