“False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.”
The psalmist laments that violent witnesses rise against him, asking him of things he does not know. The verse indicates that the psalmist faces false testimony and malicious accusations. The phrase 'things I do not know' suggests that the accusations are fabricated, that the enemies are inventing charges without basis. This verse reveals that the opposition is not merely personal animosity but involves formal accusation and character assassination through false witness.
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