Psalms 13:4

Psa 13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

Ver. 4. Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him ] This David frequently deprecateth as a great evil, because God’s honour was concerned in it, and would suffer by it. As unskilful hunters, shooting at wild beasts, do sometimes kill a man; so persecutors, shooting at saints, hit Christ, reproach him; and this the saints are very aware of.

And those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved ] Compose comedies out of my tragedies, et iram Dei ad calumniam rapiant. The wicked are vindictive and implacable, sick of the devil’s disease, επιχαιρεκακια , rejoicing at other men’s harms, revelling in other men’s ruins; but this is to enrage God, and hasten wrath, Proverbs 24:17-18 .