Bible verse
I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
Psalm 35:14 · BSB
The verses around it, from Psalm 35.
10 All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
11 Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
12 They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.
13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
14 I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
15 But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
16 Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
17 How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
18 Then I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.
KJV
I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother.
ASV
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
ERV
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
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