Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 55:12

12. For it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have born it ; neither was it he that hated me , that did magnifie himself against me, then I would have hid my self from him .

Either, 1. Not an open and professed Enemy: Or rather, 2. Not an Old and inveterate Enemy; as may be gathered from the following Description.

With more Patience, because I could expect nothing else from such Persons.

With a manifest or old Hatred.

I could and should easily have prevented [illegible: 1 word] avoided the Effects of his Hatred.