Psalm 41:5 {40:6}
Good News Translation
My enemies say cruel things about me. They want me to die and be forgotten.

New Revised Standard Version
My enemies wonder in malice when I will die, and my name perish.

Contemporary English Version
My vicious enemies ask me, "When will you die and be forgotten?"

New American Bible
My enemies say bad things against me: ‘When will he die and his name be forgotten?’

Douay-Rheims Bible
My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?

Mine

Psalm 22:6-8 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people. . . .

Psalm 102:8 All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me.

his name

Job 18:17 Let the memory of him perish from the earth, and let not his name be renowned in the streets.

Job 20:7 In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

Proverbs 10:7 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Context
Blessed is He who Cares for the Poor
4I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. 5My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?6And 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.…
Cross References
Psalm 38:12
And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.

Psalm 83:4
They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

Psalm 109:20
This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.

Psalm 41:4
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