Psalm 41:6 {40:7}
Good News Translation
Those who come to see me are not sincere; they gather bad news about me and then go out and tell it everywhere.

New Revised Standard Version
And when they come to see me, they utter empty words, while their hearts gather mischief; when they go out, they tell it abroad.

Contemporary English Version
When visitors come, all they ever bring are worthless words, and when they leave, they spread gossip.

New American Bible
When someone comes to visit me, he speaks without sincerity. His heart stores up malice; when he leaves, he gossips.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

speaketh

Psalm 12:2 They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

Nehemiah 6:1-14 And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,) . . .

Proverbs 26:24-26 An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit. . . .

Daniel 11:27 And the heart of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table, and they shall not prosper: because as yet the end is unto another time.

Micah 7:5-7 Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom. . . .

Luke 11:53,54 And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to urge him and to oppress his mouth about many things, . . .

Luke 20:20-23 And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:26 In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren:

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Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

Context
Blessed is He who Cares for the Poor
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.7All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.…
Cross References
Psalm 12:2
They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

Psalm 62:4
But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

Psalm 144:8
Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

Psalm 144:11
Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

Proverbs 26:24
An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit.

Psalm 41:5
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