Psalms 35:14

Better with R.V.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother:

I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

Had they been his nearest and dearest, he could not have displayed deeper grief. The verse would be improved by a slight transposition (which is supported by Psalms 38:6), thus; I bowed down(descriptive of the mourner's gait with the head bowed down by the load of sorrow) … I went mourning(like Lat. squalidus, of all the outward signs of grief, dark clothes, tear-stained unwashed face, untrimmed hair and beard see 2 Samuel 19:24).