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7All that hate{H8802)} me whisper{H8691)} together against me: against me do they devise{H8799)} my hurt.
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A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. …
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-13)David often complains of the insolent conduct of his enemies towards him when he was sick, which, as it was very barbarous in them, so it could not but be very grievous to him. They had not indeed arrived at that modern pitch of wickedness of poisoning his meat and drink, or giving him something to make him sick; but, when he was sick, they insulted over him (Ps. 41:5): My enemies speak evil of me…
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