| Geneva Study Bible {i} False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. (i) That would not permit me to purge myself. King James Translators' Notes False...: Heb. Witnesses of wrong they...: Heb. they asked me Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 11. False witnesses-literally, "Witnesses of injustice and cruelty" (compare Ps 11:5; 25:19). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 35:11-16 Call a man ungrateful, and you can call him no worse: this was the character of David's enemies. Herein he was a type of Christ. David shows how tenderly he had behaved towards them in afflictions. We ought to mourn for the sins of those who do not mourn for themselves. We shall not lose by the good offices we do to any, how ungrateful soever they may be. Let us learn to possess our souls in patience and meekness like David, or rather after Christ's example. | 
