Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many ,.... Both enemies and neighbours;

fear was on every side ; his enemies were a "Magormissabib" to him, Jeremiah 20:3 ; encompassed him around, so that he was in fear from every quarter;

while they took counsel together against me ; how to apprehend him, and what to do with him;

they devised to take away my life ; nothing short of that would satisfy; but life is in the hand of God; men may devise, but God disappoints, and his counsel stands; hence the psalmist was encouraged, after all, to trust in him, in this time of imminent danger, as follows.