Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 56:5

"All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil." — Psalms 56:5 (ASV)

Every day they wrest my words – The word here rendered “wrest,” means literally to give pain, to grieve, to afflict; and it is used here in the sense of “wresting,” as if force were applied to words; that is, they are “tortured,” twisted, perverted. We have the same use of the word “torture” in our language. This they did by affixing a meaning to his words which he never intended, so as to injure him.

All their thoughts are against me for evil – All their plans, devices, purposes. They never seek my good, but always seek to do me harm.