Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.
Ver. 5. Every day they wrest my words] Or, my matters; they distort and pervert everything I say, or do, from the true intention, and all to make a traitor of me. That I carried myself wisely in the court, valiantly in the field, faithfully toward Jonathan, cautiously for the safeguard of mine own life, shifting as I could from one place to another; all this they say was done out of affectation for the kingdom, and as seeking Saul's death. So they dealt by our Saviour in the Gospel, taking that with the left hand which he tendered with the right, and many times marring a good text by an ill gloss put upon it. So Simon the leper served that good woman, who made an ewer a of her eyes and a towel of her hair, Luke 7:34. Men should interpret everything the best way, and not as logicians do, Sequi partem deteriorem.
All their thoughts, &c.] See Trapp on " Psa 56:1 "
a A servant who supplied guests, etc. at table with water to wash their hands.