Psalms 56:5

Every day they wrest my words ,.... Form, fashion, and shape them at their pleasure; construe them, and put what sense upon them they think fit. The word F21 יעצבו "fingunt mea verba", Cocceius, Gusset. p. 628. "They painfully form and frame my words", Ainsworth. is used of the formation of the human body, in Job 10:8 ; They put his words upon the rack, and made them speak what he never intended; as some men wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction, 2 Peter 3:16 ; and as the Jews wrested the words of Christ, John 2:19 . The word has also the sense of causing vexation and grief, Isaiah 63:10 ; and so it may be rendered here, "my words cause grief" F23 "Dolore afficient", Montanus, Gejerus, Vatablus. ; to his enemies; because he had said, in the preceding verses, that he would trust in the Lord, and praise his word, and not be afraid of men; just as the Sadducees were grieved at the apostles preaching, through Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, Acts 4:1 . Or they caused grief to himself; for because of these his enemies reproached him, cursed him, and distressed him. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin render it, "they cursed my words"; or despised them, as the Ethiopic and Arabic versions:

all their thoughts are against me for evil ; their counsels, schemes, and contrivances, were all formed to do him all the hurt and mischief they could.