Psalms 41:7

²⁸A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

³Then 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. ⁴They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.

¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

⁵All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. ⁶They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

²⁰For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

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.

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 would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,