Psalms Chapter 31 verse 13 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.
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BBE Psalms 31:13

False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.
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DARBY Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many -- terror on every side -- when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.
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KJV Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
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WBT Psalms 31:13

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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WEB Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, While they conspire together against me, They plot to take away my life.
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YLT Psalms 31:13

For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear `is' round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - For I have heard the slander of many (see the comment on ver. 11). The calumnies circulated against him had reached David's ears, and these had so affected him that he felt as described in the preceding verse. Fear was on every side, while they took counsel together against me. Fear was "on every side" - in his own heart, and in the hearts of all his friends - when it came to the point of his enemies holding a formal council, in which the matter discussed was the best mode of proceeding against him to take away his life. The particulars of such a council are given in 2 Samuel 17:1-14. They devised to take away my life. That David's life was sought is apparent from the last clause of ver. 2, "I will smite the king only."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Again comp. Jeremiah 20:10, which reproduces word for word the first two clauses. The expression rendered "fear on every side" was actually a motto of the prophet (Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 20:3, margin; Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:29. Comp. Lamentations 2:22). But the most probable derivation makes the noun mean not terror but conspiracy, while for slander here we must render whisper. . . .