Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
12. "Deliver me not up unto the souls of them that trouble me" (ver. 12). Suffer not them that trouble me to be satiated with my evils. "For unrighteous witnesses have risen up against me." For there have risen up against me they that speak falsely of me, to remove and call me back from Thee, as if I seek glory of men. "And iniquity hath lied unto itself." Therefore iniquity hath been pleased with its own lie. For me it hath not moved, to whom because of this there hath been promised a greater reward in heaven.
Will. Literally, "souls. "(Haydock)
Some ancient copies have, "the hands. "
Unjust. Hebrew, "false. "(Haydock)
To itself, ought not to be urged no more than eat sibi, vade tibi, Genesis xii. 1., and Canticle of Canticles i. 7. (Calmet)
It is a Hebrew idiom. (Haydock)
Many find fault with the Septuagint and Vulgate in this place, but without reason; and they do not agree in their versions. Symmachus and St. Jerome come near to us. Puach means to breathe, or entangle; and our version intimates, that "iniquity has entangled itself: "vipheach chamas, "and open lying. "(St. Jerome) (Berthier)
The accusers of Susanna, and of our Saviour, could not agree in their testimony. The Chaldeans continually calumniated the captives, Isaias lii. 4., and Jeremias l. 33. (Calmet)
World lings still do the same, (Matthew v.) delighting in lies, which will prove their own ruin. (Worthington)
