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Psalms 50:20
20You sit, speaking against your brother, slandering your own mother’s son.
Psalms 50:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
- New International Version (NIV)You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother’s son.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son.
Context of Psalms 50:20
18When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and your portion is with adulterers. 19You have unleashed your mouth for evil and harnessed your tongue for deceit. You sit, speaking against your brother, slandering your own mother’s son. 21These things you have done— Should I keep silent? You thought I was just like you— but I reprove you, and set the case before your eyes. 22Now consider this, you who forget God. Or else I will tear you in pieces with no one to rescue you.
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:20 word by word
תֵּ֭שֵׁב בְּאָחִ֣יךָ תְדַבֵּ֑ר בְּבֶֽן־אִ֝מְּךָ֗ תִּתֶּן־דֹּֽפִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 50:20
- Psalms 31:18Adonai, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon You. Let the wicked be ashamed— let them be silent in Sheol.
- Matthew 5:11“Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, on account of Me.
- Luke 22:65And reviling Him, they were saying many other things against Him.
- Leviticus 19:16“You are not to go up and down as a talebearer among your people. You are not to endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Adonai.
- Proverbs 10:18One who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
- 1 Timothy 3:11Women likewise must be dignified, not backbiting; clear-minded, trustworthy in every respect.
- Revelation 12:10Then 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 Anointed One, for the accuser of our brothers and sisters—the one who accuses them before our God day and night—has been thrown out.
- Matthew 10:21“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and have them put to death.
Commentaries on Psalms 50:20
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother - To the general character of falsehood and slander there is now added the fact that they were guilty of this in the most aggravated manner conceivable - against their nearest relations, the members of their own families. They were not only guilty of the crime against neighbors - against strangers - against persons to whom they sustained no near relationship; but against those of their own households - those…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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