Every student of the Bible will at once recognise how necessary it is that the original meaning of the Hebrew text should be known, and that the psalmist should not be accused of setting forth a doctrine of such great importance, whether true or false, when he may never even have thought or suggested it.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
Said a sorrowful psalmist, who had known this experience, "Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me."
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
And another psalmist sobs out the same lament, It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it, but it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide and mine acquaintance.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black