Psalms 35:11 - Exposition

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I know not (comp. Psalms 27:12 ); literally, malicious , or unrighteous witnesses (see Exodus 23:1 ). It is not probable that witnesses in a court are intended. David's calumniators accused him privately to Saul of "seeking his hurt" ( 1 Samuel 24:9 ), and so stirred Saul up against him ( 1 Samuel 26:19 ). By what is here said, they appear to have accused him to his face, and to have endeavoured to extort from him a confession of guilt.