16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
16 like profane mockers at a feast,
16 Like barbarians desecrating a shrine, they destroyed my reputation.
16 With ungodly mockers at feasts They gnashed at me with their teeth.
16 They mock me and call me names; they snarl at me.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 35:16
Commentary on Psalm 35:11-16
(Read Psalm 35:11-16)
Call a man ungrateful, and you can call him no worse: this was the character of David's enemies. Herein he was a type of Christ. David shows how tenderly he had behaved towards them in afflictions. We ought to mourn for the sins of those who do not mourn for themselves. We shall not lose by the good offices we do to any, how ungrateful soever they may be. Let us learn to possess our souls in patience and meekness like David, or rather after Christ's example.