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"If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide. But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshipers."

— Psalm 55:12-14

Psalm 55 as a whole is a prayer to God. In these three verses a man speaks of being hurt by someone close to him. He puts two cases side by side. If an enemy were insulting him, he could bear it. If someone who hated him rose against him, he could hide. But it was a man like himself, his companion and close friend. In the middle of the prayer, he turns and speaks to that man directly: "But it is you." He remembers the friendship they shared and how they walked together to the house of God. Here he does not complain about people in general. He points to one particular man and recalls what they shared.