Psalms 50:20

Words and speech Fellowship and the church Conflict and reconciliation

¹⁸ When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

¹⁹ Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

²¹ These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

²² Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

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
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
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Leviticus 19:16
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
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Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
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Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
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Matthew 5:11
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
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Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
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Titus 2:3
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
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Luke 22:65
And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
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