Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against [me].
Ver. 13. And thou thyself wouldst have set thyself.] Or, Wouldst have kept aloof off from helping me. Satan is ever accusing the saints after that he hath drawn them to sin: so that one may say to him, as this man here doth to Joab, Thou thyself, &c.