Psalm 55:12 {54:13}
Good News Translation
If it were an enemy making fun of me, I could endure it; if it were an opponent boasting over me, I could hide myself from him.

New Revised Standard Version
It is not enemies who taunt me— I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me— I could hide from them.

Contemporary English Version
My enemies are not the ones who sneer and make fun. I could put up with that or even hide from them.

New American Bible
For it is not an enemy that reviled me— that I could bear— Not a foe who viewed me with contempt, from that I could hide.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden my self from him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden my self from him.

For

Psalm 41:9 For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.

magnify

Psalm 35:26 Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me.

Psalm 38:16 For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.

Isaiah 10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it? or shall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod should lift itself up against him that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt itself, which is but wood.

then I

Matthew 26:21-23 And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you that one of you is about to betray me. . . .

John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth bread with me shall lift up his heel against me,

John 18:2,3 And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: because Jesus had often resorted thither together with his disciples. . . .

Context
Cast Your Burden upon the LORD
11And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets. 12For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden my self from him.13But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,…
Cross References
Job 19:5
But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.

Job 19:19
They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.

Psalm 35:26
Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me.

Psalm 41:9
For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.

Psalm 55:11
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