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Psalm 41:7

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

5My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”
6If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
7All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
8“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
9Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
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Notice

Whispering makes the hostility feel close yet out of reach: the speaker faces people who gather against him and imagine his worst outcome.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 56:5All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.Both speakers describe people whose thoughts are directed against them, with a desire for evil.
Proverbs 16:28A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.Whispering harms relationships in both passages: the psalm describes united hostility, while the proverb names the separation of close friends.
Romans 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret …The psalm describes hostile whispering, and Romans includes secret slanderers in its account of human wickedness.
Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.Both passages describe people consulting together against someone, with Matthew specifying a plan to entrap Jesus in his speech.
Matthew 26:3–4Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.Both passages describe people coming together; the supplied Matthew verse does not state the purpose of that gathering.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that perhaps there …Whispering appears in both passages, as hostility endured by the psalm's speaker and conduct Paul fears finding among the Corinthians.
Psalm 31:13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.Both speakers face people conspiring together against them, with Psalm 31 naming a plot to take the speaker's life.
Proverbs 26:20For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.Both passages connect harmful talk with conflict: the psalm describes hostile whispers, while the proverb describes quarrels fading without gossip.
Where this verse fits

Broken friendship. work conflict. injustice and anger.

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Encouragement

You do not have to soften the account of harm when praying to God. This psalm speaks without disguising the hatred or pretending the whispers do no damage.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).