Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 55:12-14
Psalms 55:12-14. For it was not an enemy, &c.— Among other persons who joined in this conspiracy against David, there was one from whom he expected a quite different conduct, and whose infidelity and treachery were aggravated by the highest ingratitude. He was reproached by one whom he never suspected as an enemy; that would have been tolerable, and what might have been expected. It was not one who had ever expressed any hatred to him, that magnified himself against him; from such a one he... read more
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 55:12
PARENTHETICAL MENTION OF A TREACHEROUS FRIEND"For it was not an enemy which reproached me;Then I could have borne it:Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me;Then would I have hid myself from him:But it was thou, a man mine equal, my companion, and my familiar friend,We took sweet counsel together;We walked in the house of God with the throng."Leupold referred to this paragraph as "a parenthesis,"[13] inserted here for the purpose of explaining that among the enemies... read more