v.11. “False witnesses”: witnesses of violence and wrong. He demanded an answer to their charges. He didn’t know what they were talking about. v.12. “Evil for good”: he was forsaken and abandoned by all he might have put confidence in. v.13. “As for me” contrasts his conduct with his accusers. He showed sympathy when they were sick. He earnestly pleaded on their behalf. He subjected himself to deep humiliation in prayer for them and prayed with his head down on his bosom and his face between his legs under a burden of grief on their behalf. v.14. “I behaved (walked)”: a course of conduct that indicated those who afflicted him were close friends. His mourning was of the deepest kind, similar to the reverence, honor, and love we show to our mother.
Psalm 35:11–14