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Psalms 41:6
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When one of them comes to visit, he speaks deceitfully;he stores up evil in his heart;he goes out and talks.
If he come to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
Some people come to see me, but they lie. They just come to get bad news. Then they go and gossip.
When someone comes to visit, he pretends to be friendly; he thinks of ways to defame me, and when he leaves he slanders me.
And when one comes to see me, he speaks empty words, While his heart gathers malicious gossip [against me]; When he goes away, he tells it [everywhere].
And when he comes to see me, he speaks empty words; His heart gathers wickedness to itself; When he goes outside, he tells it.
If he come to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
And if hee come to see mee, hee speaketh lies, but his heart heapeth iniquitie within him, and when he commeth foorth, he telleth it.
And when he comes to see me, he speaks worthlessness;His heart gathers wickedness to itself;When he goes outside, he speaks it.
My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
When visitors come, all they ever bring are worthless words, and when they leave, they spread gossip.
My enemies say the worst about me: "When will he die and his name disappear?"
And if one come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].
If they come to see me, they don't say what they are really thinking. They come to gather a little gossip and then go to spread their rumors.
When they come to see me, they speak falsely and their hearts devise evil; they go out into the street and gossip about me.
Those who come to see me are not sincere; they gather bad news about me and then go out and tell it everywhere.
And when one comes to see me, he speaks falsely; his heart gathers disaster for itself. He goes out to the street; he speaks.
And when he comes to see me he speaks vanity; his heart gathers iniquity to itself; he goes outside and speaks.
Though he came in to se, yet meaned he falsede in his hert, heapinge myschefe vpon himself.
And if he come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; His heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.
Mine enemies speak evil of me: 'When shall he die, and his name perish?'
And if hee come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquitie to it selfe, when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
But yf [any of them] came to visite me, he spake vanitie: his heart conceaued vngodlynesse within hym selfe, & when he came foorth a doores he vttered it.
And if he came to see me, his heart spoke vainly; he gathered iniquity to himself; he went forth and spoke in like manner.
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity; his heart gathereth iniquity to itself: when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
And if he entride for to se, he spak veyn thingis; his herte gaderide wickidnesse to hym silf.
And if he comes to see [me], he speaks falsehood; His heart gathers iniquity to itself: When he goes abroad, he tells it.
And if he cometh to see [me], he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].
They visit me as if they were my friends, but all the while they gather gossip, and when they leave, they spread it everywhere.
When one comes to see me, he speaks lies. His heart gathers up bad stories. Then he goes outside and tells them.
And when they come to see me, they utter empty words, while their hearts gather mischief; when they go out, they tell it abroad.
And, if he have come to see me, Falsehood, doth he speak, His own heart, gathereth iniquity to itself, he goeth forth, abroad he telleth it.
(40-7) And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.
And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers mischief; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh.
And when he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood; His heart gathers wickedness to itself; When he goes outside, he tells it.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
speaketh: Psalms 12:2, Proverbs 26:24, Proverbs 26:25, Nehemiah 6:1-14, Proverbs 26:24-26, Daniel 11:27, Micah 7:5-7, Luke 11:53, Luke 11:54, Luke 20:20-23, 2 Corinthians 11:26
when: Jeremiah 20:10
Reciprocal: Psalms 10:7 - vanity Psalms 144:8 - mouth Proverbs 12:5 - counsels Matthew 22:15 - how Mark 7:20 - General Luke 6:45 - and an Luke 14:1 - they
Cross-References
Behold, it is planted, Will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the garden terrace where it grew.""'
But she was plucked up in fury, She was cast down to the ground, And the east wind dried her fruit. Her strong branches were broken and withered; The fire consumed them.
Though he is fruitful among his brethren, An east wind shall come; The wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness. Then his spring shall become dry, And his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasury of every desirable prize.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And if he come to see [me],.... Meaning anyone of his enemies, when they came, as pretended, to pay him a friendly visit. A late learned writer x interprets this of Absalom, who visited his father when he had the smallpox, which he thinks, after mentioned, of which his enemies expected he would die, when Absalom pretended great concern for his life; though he, with others, were plotting against him, should he live, to destroy him;
he speaketh vanity; lies and falsehoods, in an hypocritical manner, with a double heart; his mouth and his heart not agreeing together; see
Matthew 22:16;
his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; amasses to itself greater treasures of wickedness still, thought that itself is desperately wicked, and very wickedness: this is to be understood of the enemies of Christ observing his words and actions, and laying them up, with a wicked intention, against a proper time;
[when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it]; as in the instances concerning giving tribute to Caesar, destroying the temple, and saying he was the son of God, Matthew 22:17; compared with Luke 23:2; compared with Matthew 26:60, compared with John 19:5.
x Delaney's Life of King David, vol. 2. p. 157, 158.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And if he come to see me - If he condescends to visit me in my sickness. The word me is not in the original; and perhaps the idea is not that he came to see the sufferer, but that he came to see “for himself,” though under pretence of paying a visit of kindness. His real motive was to make observation, that he might find something in the expressions or manner of the sufferer that would enable him to make a report unfavorable to him, and to confirm him in his impression that it was desirable such a man should die. He would come under the mask of sympathy and friendship, but really to find something that would confirm him in the opinion that he was a bad man, and that would enable him to state to others that it was desirable he should die.
He speaketh vanity - He utters no expressions of sincerity and truth; he suggests nothing that would console and comfort me; his words are all foreign to the purpose for which a man should visit another in such circumstances, and are, therefore, vain words. What he says is mere pretence and hypocrisy, and is designed to deceive me, as if he had sympathy with me, while his real purpose is to do me mischief.
His heart gathereth iniquity to itself - Or, in his heart he is gathering mischief. That is, in his heart, or in his secret purpose, under the pretence of sympathy and friendship, he is really aiming to gather the materials for doing me wrong. He is endeavoring to find something in my words or manner; in my expressions of impatience and complaining; in the utterances of my unguarded moments, when I am scarcely conscious - something that may be uttered in the honesty of feeling when a man thinks that he is about to die - some reflections of my own on my past life - some confession of sin, which he may turn to my disadvantage, or which may justify his slanderous report that I am a bad man, and that it is desirable that such a man should live no longer. Can anything be imagined more malicious than this?
When he goeth abroad, he telleth it - literally, he tells it to the street, or to those who are without. Perhaps his friends, as malicious as himself, are anxiously waiting without for his report, and, like him, are desirous of finding something that may confirm them in their opinion of him. Or perhaps he designs to tell this to the friends of the sufferer, to show them now that they were deceived in the man; that although in the days of his health, and in his prosperity, he seemed to be a good man, yet that now, when the trial has come, and a real test has been applied, all his religion has been found false and hollow; his impatience, his complaining, his murmuring, and his unwillingness to die, all showing that he was a hypocrite, and was at heart a bad man. Compare the notes at Job 1:9-11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 41:6. And if he come to see me] This may relate to Ahithophel; but it is more likely that it was to some other person who was his secret enemy, who pretended to come and inquire after his health, but with the secret design to see whether death was despatching his work.
When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.] He makes several observations on my dying state; intimates that I am suffering deep remorse for secret crimes; that God is showing his displeasure against me, and that I am full of sorrow at the approach of death.
