Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 35:16

"Hypocritical mockers in feasts."  בּהגפי לעגי מעוג Very difficult. The word מעוג, in 1 Kings 17:12, the only other passage where it occurs, means "a cake." Hence לעגי מעוג is interpreted by Gesenius and other to mean, hangers-on at the tables of the rich (lit. "cake-mockers") whose business it was, by witticisms and buffoonery to make entertainment for the guests, and who got their dinner in return, like the Gr ψωμοκόλακες, κνισοκόλακες, and the Medieval Latbuccellarii. Then the words would mean, "Amongst the profanest." —J. J. Stewart Perowne. (Would not our word loafers be somewhat analogous to these cake-eaters of antiquity!) —C. H. S.