Psalms 38:20

¹⁸ For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

¹⁹ But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

²¹ Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

²² Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
KJV: They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
WEB: They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
ASV: They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
DARBY: And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.
BLB: And those repaying evil for good, they oppose me, because of my pursuing good.

ÅB: De som gjengjelder godt med ondt,
står meg imot fordi jeg jager etter det gode.
OTB: Og de som gjengjelder ondt for godt,
De motsetter seg meg, fordi jeg forfølger det som er godt.
B1930: Og de som gjengjelder godt med ondt, står mig imot, fordi jeg jager efter det gode.

Psalms 35:12
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
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Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
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1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
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John 10:32
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
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1 Peter 4:14–16
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
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1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
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Psalms 109:3–5
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
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1 Samuel 23:12
Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
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