Psalm 55:13
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New International Version (©2011)
But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend,

New Living Translation (©2007)
Instead, it is you--my equal, my companion and close friend.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But it is you, a man my equal, My companion and my familiar friend;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But it is you, a man who is my peer, my companion and good friend!

International Standard Version (©2012)
but it is you— a man whom I treated as my equal— my personal confidant, my close friend!

NET Bible (©2006)
But it is you, a man like me, my close friend in whom I confided.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
For it is you, a man like me, my neighbor and my friend.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But it is you, my equal, my best friend, one I knew so well!

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my close friend.

American King James Version
But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.

American Standard Version
But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar,

Darby Bible Translation
But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. ...

English Revised Version
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Webster's Bible Translation
But it was thou, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.

World English Bible
But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Young's Literal Translation
But thou, a man -- as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

55:9-15 No wickedness so distresses the believer, as that which he witnesses in those who profess to be of the church of God. Let us not be surprised at the corruptions and disorders of the church on earth, but long to see the New Jerusalem. He complains of one that had been very industrious against him. God often destroys the enemies of the church by dividing them. And an interest divided against itself cannot long stand. The true Christian must expect trials from professed friends, from those with whom he has been united; this will be very painful; but by looking unto Jesus we shall be enabled to bear it. Christ was betrayed by a companion, a disciple, an apostle, who resembled Ahithophel in his crimes and doom. Both were speedily overtaken by Divine vengeance. And this prayer is a prophecy of the utter, the everlasting ruin, of all who oppose and rebel against the Messiah.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - But it was thou, a man mine equal; literally, a man according to my valuing; i.e. one of my social rank, with whom I was on familiar terms. My guide; or, "my companion." But the LXX. have ἡγέμων. And mine acquaintance. "My confidant" (Kay); "my familiar friend" (Cheyne, and Revised Version).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But it was thou,.... The Targum is, "but thou Ahithophel"; of whom the words are literally to be understood, and so they are in the Talmud (u); and mystically and typically of Judas;

a man mine equal; "a man", and not a beast, nor a devil; but a man, from whom humanity, kindness, and tenderness might have been expected; though both Ahithophel and Judas acted the part of a devil; and the latter is expressly called one, John 6:70; "mine equal"; or like unto me; as the Targum. Ahithophel was not equal to David in dignity, as the king of Israel; nor in gifts, as the sweet psalmist of Israel; nor in grace as he; but as a man, a mortal dying man: kings and subjects are of the same blood, equally liable to death, and in the grave will be manifestly on a level: or rather the sense is, that he was in his esteem and affliction as himself; he was his friend that he loved as his own soul: so Judas could not be in every sense equal to Christ who is Jehovah's fellow, and thought it no robbery to be equal with God. Indeed as a man he was like unto him; a frail, mortal man, though not sinless as Christ. The word may be rendered "according to my appointment" (w), ordination, or constitution; Judas being a man appointed and ordained to be an apostle of Christ with the rest: or, "according to my esteem" (x); being had in great esteem and familiarity with Christ: or, "according to my order" (y), rank and class; being taken into his family, admitted to his table, where be sat down and ate with him, as if he was his equal;

my guide: or "governor" (z). Ahithophel was not governor over David; but was made a governor by him: he was one of his dukes or nobles, as the word is rendered in Genesis 36:15, was raised to great dignity by him; perhaps was chief minister of state: it is certain he was his counsellor, and his counsel was with him as the oracle of God, 1 Chronicles 27:33; he was his guide in civil affairs; he was directed by his advice, and it may be was president of his privy council. Judas was not only the guide of them to Christ who took him, Acts 1:16; but when the apostles were sent out two by two before the face of Christ, to preach where he himself should come, Judas was sent also, Mark 6:7;

and mine acquaintance: one well known to him, as Ahithophel was to David, and Judas to Christ, his friend and companion, in whom he confided, and who ate of his bread; and all these characters are so many aggravations of his treachery and wickedness.

(u) T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 106. 2. Pirke Abot, c. 6. s. 3.((w) "Secundum dispositionem, sc. ordinationem et constitutionem meam", Calvinus in Michaelis. (x) "Juxta estimationem meam", Vatablus, Gejerus, Michaelis; "qui par mihi estimatus est", Piscator. (y) "Secundum ordinem meum", Mollerus. (z) "dux meus", Pagninus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "princeps meus", Cocceius.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13. guide—literally, "friend" (Pr 16:28; 17:9).

acquaintance—in Hebrew, a yet more intimate associate.

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Cast Your Cares on the Lord
…12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 13But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance. 14We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company. …

2 Samuel 15:12 While Absalom was offering sacrifices, he also sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, to come from Giloh, his hometown. And so the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom's following kept on increasing.
Job 19:5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
Job 19:14 My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:19 All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me.
Psalm 41:9 Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me.