Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
Parallel translations
- KJV False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
- BSB Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
- NKJV Fierce witnesses rise up; They ask me things that I do not know.
- NASB Malicious witnesses rise up; They ask me things that I do not know.
- NLT Malicious witnesses testify against me. They accuse me of crimes I know nothing about.
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Cross-references · 7
- Ps 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
- Matt 26:59–60Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
- Acts 6:13and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
- 1 Sam 24:9David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’
- Acts 24:5–6For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
- 1 Sam 25:10Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.
- Acts 24:12–13In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
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