시편 41:4-10 KRV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:5

Mine enemies speak evil - It is often a good man's lot to be evil spoken of; to have his motives, and even his most benevolent acts, misconstrued. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:7

All that hate me whisper together against me - This is in consequence of the information given by the hypocritical friend, who came to him with the lying tongue, and whose heart gathereth iniquity to itself, which, when he went abroad, he told to others as illminded as himself, and they also drew their wicked inferences. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:8

An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him - בו יצוק בליעל דבר debar beliyaal yatsuk bo , a thing, word, or pestilence of Belial, is poured out upon him. His disease is of no common sort; it is a diabolical malady. He shall rise up no more - His disease is incurable without a miracle; and he is too much hated of God to have one wrought for him. Some apply this to the death and resurrection of Christ; he lieth - he is dead and buried; he shall never rise again from the dead. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:9

Mine own familiar friend - This is either a direct prophecy of the treachery of Judas, or it is a fact in David's distresses which our Lord found so similar to the falsity of his treacherous disciple, that he applies it to him, John 13:18 . What we translate mine own familiar friend, שלומי איש ish shelomi , is the man of my peace. The man who, with the לך שלום shalom lecha , peace be to thee! kissed me; and thus gave the agreed-on signal to my murderers that I was the person whom... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:10

Raise me up - Restore me from this sickness, that I may requite them. This has also been applied to our Lord; who, knowing that he must die, prays that he may rise again, and thus disappoint the malice of his enemies. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:4

Verse 4 4.I have said, O Jehovah! have mercy upon me. By this verse he shows that in his adversity he did not seek to soothe his mind by flattery, as the greater part of men do, who endeavor to assuage their sorrows by some vain consolation. And, certainly, the man who is guided by the Spirit of God will, when warned of God by the afflictions with which he is visited, frankly acknowledge his sins, and quietly submit to the admonitions of his brethren, nay, he will even anticipate them by a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:5

Verse 5 5.My enemies have spoken evil of me. To speak is here used in the sense of to imprecate. In thus describing the unbecoming conduct of his enemies, he seeks, as has been elsewhere said, to induce God to have mercy upon him: because the more that God sees his own people cruelly treated, he is so much the more disposed mercifully to succor them. Thus David, by his own example, stirs up and encourages us to greater confidence in God; because the more that our enemies break forth in their... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:6

Verse 6 6.And if he come to see me, he speaketh lies. What is contained in this verse relates to his false and treacherous friends. Those who were his professed enemies made no secret of their enmity against him, but openly persecuted him; and that he has already shown in the preceding verse. In addition to this, he now complains that many came to him with professions of attachment to him, as if they had been his friends, who, nevertheless, afterwards poured forth their malicious ill-will in... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:7

Verse 7 7.All they that hate me whisper together against me. Here he seems generally to include both classes of his enemies; those who sought to oppress him in an open manner, and in the character of avowed enemies; and those who, under the pretense of friendship, attempted to do the same thing by deceit and stratagem. Accordingly, he says that all of them took counsel together about his destruction, just as we know that wicked men hold much secret consultation respecting their intended deeds... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 41:7

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