Like godless jesters at a feast, They gnashed at me with their teeth.
Parallel translations
- WEB Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- KJV With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- BSB Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- NKJV With ungodly mockers at feasts They gnashed at me with their teeth.
- NLT They mock me and call me names; they snarl at me.
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Quick answer
Like godless mockers, his enemies gnashed their teeth at David in scorn.
Overview
David likens his attackers to profane scoffers who deride him with hostile contempt. Their gnashing teeth express violent malice and mockery. Such scorn against the righteous sufferer points toward the mockery surrounding Christ at the cross.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Lam 2:16All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
- Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
- Ps 37:12The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
- Acts 7:54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
- John 18:28They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
- 1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
- 1 Sam 20:24–42So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.
- Isa 1:14–15My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
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