Psalm 35:11 {34:11}
Good News Translation
Evil people testify against me and accuse me of crimes I know nothing about.

New Revised Standard Version
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me about things I do not know.

Contemporary English Version
Liars accuse me of crimes I know nothing about.

New American Bible
Malicious witnesses rise up, accuse me of things I do not know.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

False witnesses [heb.

Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

1 Samuel 24:9 And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say: David seeketh thy hurt?

1 Samuel 25:10 But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee from their masters.

Matthew 26:59,60 And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death. . . .

Acts 6:13 And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law.

Acts 24:5,6,12,13 We have found this to be a pestilent man and raising seditions among all the Jews throughout the world: and author of the sedition of the sect of the Nazarenes. . . .

laid [heb.

Context
Contend with My Opponents
10All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him. 11Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.12They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:1
Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.

Psalm 27:12
Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Psalm 69:4
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

Psalm 35:10
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