Psalms 41:7

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁵My enemies say with malice: "When will he die and be forgotten?" ⁶My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad. ⁷All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:⁸"A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!" ⁹Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁰But You, O LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up, that I may repay them. ¹¹By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me. ¹²In my integrity You uphold me and set me in Your presence forever. ¹³Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

Bible Verse Review
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whisper: Proverbs 16:28, Proverbs 26:20, *marg. Romans 1:29, 2 Corinthians 12:20

against: Psalms 31:13, Psalms 56:5, Psalms 56:6, Matthew 22:15, Matthew 26:3, Matthew 26:4

my hurt: Heb. evil to me

Reciprocal: Psalms 71:11 - God Psalms 138:7 - Though I walk Proverbs 12:5 - counsels Luke 6:45 - and an

Cross-References

Genesis 20:3
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman."

Genesis 37:5
Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All that hate me whisper together against me,.... That is, they privately conspired against him; see Matthew 22:15;

against me do they devise my hurt; not only to take away his name and credit, but his life.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All that hate me whisper together against me - They talk the matter over where they suppose that no one can hear; they endeavonr to collect and arrange all that can be said against me; they place all that they can say or think as individuals, all that they have separately known or suspected, into “common stock,” and make use of it against me. There is a conspiracy against me - a purpose to do me all the evil that they can. This shows that, in the apprehension of the sufferer, the one who came to see for himself Psalms 41:6 came as one of a company - as one deputed or delegated to find some new occasion for a charge against him, and that he had not to suffer under the single malignity of one, but under the combined malignity of many.

Against me do they devise my hurt - Margin, as in Hebrew: “evil to me.” That is, they devise some report, the truth of which they endeavor to confirm by something that they may observe in my sickness which will be injurious to me, and which will prove to the world that I am a bad man - a man by whose death the world would be benefited. The slanderous report on which they seemed to agree is mentioned in the following verse - that he was suffering under a disease which was directly and manifestly the result of a sinful life, and that it must be fatal.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 41:7. All that hate me whisper together against me — This is in consequence of the information given by the hypocritical friend, who came to him with the lying tongue, and whose heart gathereth iniquity to itself, which, when he went abroad, he told to others as ill-minded as himself, and they also drew their wicked inferences.