Psalms 41:7
\41:6\If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
In Context
6\41:5\My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?
8\41:7\All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.
Cross References
Psalms 31:13\31:12\I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
Proverbs 16:28A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.
Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.
Romans 1:29Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;
Matthew Henry on Psalms 41:6-13
David Complains of His Enemies; David's Comfort in God. 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? 6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. 7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. 8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread,… Read the whole commentary →