They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head. In Psalms 40:12 it is "mine iniquities."
They that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty - (Psalms 35:19; Psalms 38:19.)
Then I restored that which I took not away - (Psalms 35:11, margin.) A proverbial phrase for, 'I am treated as guilty of wrongs which I have never done.' The "then" means, what I have not taken away, I am then afterward held accountable for. So in 2 Samuel 16:8, Shimei charged David with Saul's sins, "The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul."