Psalms 50:20
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
- KJV
- Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
- WEB
- You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
- ASV
- Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother`s son.
- DARBY
- Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:
- BLB
- You sit against your brother and speak; against the son of your mother you place fault.
- ÅB
- Du sitter og taler imot din bror, du baktaler din mors sønn.
- OTB
- Du sitter og taler mot din bror;
Du baktaler din egen mors sønn. - B1930
- Du sitter og taler imot din bror, du baktaler din mors sønn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
Read in contextLeviticus 19:16
You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
Read in contextProverbs 10:18
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Read in contextRevelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down— he who accuses them day and night before our God.
Read in contextMatthew 5:11
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
Read in contextPsalms 31:18
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
Read in contextTitus 2:3
Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
Read in contextLuke 22:65
And they said many other blasphemous things against Him.
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