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- Chapter 41
- Verse 6
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
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…
Cambridge Bible
And if one of themcomes to see me, he speaketh falsehood. If one of these enemies comes to visit him, as was usual in sickness (2Ki 8:29), he speaks vanity or falsehood (Psa 12:2), makes hypocritical…
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