New English Translation
Psalms 50:18
18When you see a thief, you join him; you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives.
Psalms 50:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
- New International Version (NIV)When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.
- English Standard Version (ESV)If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.
- New King James Version (NKJV)When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have been a partaker with adulterers.
Context of Psalms 50:18
16God says this to the evildoer: “How can you declare my commands, and talk about my covenant? 17For you hate instruction and reject my words. When you see a thief, you join him; you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives. 19You do damage with words, and use your tongue to deceive. 20You plot against your brother; you slander your own brother.
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:18 word by word
אִם־רָאִ֣יתָ גַ֭נָּב וַתִּ֣רֶץ עִמּ֑וֹ וְעִ֖ם מְנָאֲפִ֣ים חֶלְקֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 50:18
- Proverbs 1:10My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!
- Isaiah 5:23They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.
- Micah 7:3They are determined to be experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men make demands, and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them.
- Romans 1:32Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
- Ephesians 5:11Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
- Leviticus 7:19The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
- Jeremiah 5:8They are like lusty, well-fed stallions. Each of them lusts after his neighbor’s wife.
- Hebrews 13:4Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
- Matthew 23:30And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
- 1 Timothy 5:22Do not lay hands on anyone hastily and so identify with the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
Commentaries on Psalms 50:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18When thou sawest a thief - Rapine, adulteries, and adulterous divines, were common among the Jews in our Lord's time. The Gospels give full proof of this.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18When thou sawest a thief - When you have seen or found one who was intending to commit theft, then (instead of rebuking or exposing him) you have been willing to act with him, and to divide the profits. The words “when thou sawest” would seem to imply readiness and willingness to engage with them, as “at first sight.” Whenever there was an opportunity to share in the results of theft, they were ready to engage in it. The main “point” in this is, that they…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-23Verses 16-23 Hypocrisy is wickedness, which God will judge. And it is too common, for those who declare the Lord's statutes to others, to live in disobedience to them themselves. This delusion arises from the abuse of God's long-suffering, and a wilful mistake of his character and the intention of his gospel. The sins of sinners will be fully proved on them in the judgment of the great day. The day is coming when God will set their sins in order, sins of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-21This message is against the wicked, who only pretend to listen to God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2016-20. the wicked--that is, the formalists, as now exposed, and who lead vicious lives (compare Ro 2:21, 23). They are unworthy to use even the words of God's law. Their hypocrisy and vice are exposed by illustrations from sins against the seventh, eighth, and ninth commandments.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 50
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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