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Psalms 50:20
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You sit, maligning your brother,slandering your mother’s son.
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
You speak against your brother and lie about your mother's son.
You plot against your brother; you slander your own brother.
"You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.
"You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.
You sit and speak against your brother;You slander your own mother's son.
You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
you sit and speak against your kinsman, you slander your own mother's son.
Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:
You sit around talking about people, finding fault with your own brothers.
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mothers son.
You are ready to accuse your own relatives and to find fault with them.
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother's son.
You sit; you speak against your brother; you give fault to the son of your mother.
Thou syttest and speakest agaynst thy brother, yee and slaundrest thine owne mothers sonne.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine owne mothers sonne.
Thou sattest and spakedst agaynst thy brother: yea and hast slaundered thine owne mothers sonne.
Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy mother’s son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Thou sittynge spakist ayens thi brother, and thou settidist sclaundir ayens the sone of thi modir;
You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.
Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son.
You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.
You sit around and slander your brother— your own mother's son.
You sit and speak against your brother. You talk against your own mother's son.
You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your own mother's child.
Thou wouldst sit down - Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother's son, wouldst thou expose a fault: -
(49-20) Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.
"You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
speakest: Psalms 31:18, Matthew 5:11, Luke 22:65
slanderest: Leviticus 19:16, Proverbs 10:18, 1 Timothy 3:11, Titus 2:3, Revelation 12:10
thine own: Matthew 10:21
Reciprocal: Job 15:5 - thou choosest Psalms 101:5 - Whoso Jeremiah 6:28 - walking Ezekiel 22:9 - men that carry tales Ephesians 4:31 - evil speaking
Cross-References
to show that he was his favorite son, and so Joseph's brothers hated him and would not be friendly to him.
Just before my father died, he made me promise to bury him in his burial cave in Canaan. If the king will give me permission to go, I will come back here."
They took him to Canaan and buried him in Machpelah Cave, the burial place Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite.
After Jacob died, Joseph's brothers said to each other, "What if Joseph still hates us and wants to get even with us for all the cruel things we did to him?"
So they sent this message to Joseph: Before our father died,
he told us, "You did some cruel and terrible things to Joseph, but you must ask him to forgive you." Now we ask you to please forgive the terrible things we did. After all, we serve the same God that your father worshiped. When Joseph heard this, he started crying.
Right then, Joseph's brothers came and bowed down to the ground in front of him and said, "We are your slaves."
You tried to harm me, but God made it turn out for the best, so that he could save all these people, as he is now doing.
Enemies spend the whole day finding fault with me; all they think about is how to do me harm.
Even the most angry people will praise you when you are furious.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou sittest,.... Either in the chair of Moses, or on the seat of judgment, in the great sanhedrim of the nation; or, as Aben Ezra paraphrases it, "in the seat of the scornful";
[and] speakest against thy brother; even to pass sentence upon him, to put him to death for professing faith in Christ, Matthew 10:21;
thou slanderest thine own mother's son; the apostles and disciples of Christ, who were their brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh; and even our Lord Jesus Christ himself, who was bone of their bone, and flesh of their flesh.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thou 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 whose characters, on that account, ought to have been especially dear to them. The words ““thou sittest”” probably refer to the fact that they would do this when enjoying social contact with them; in confidential conversation; when words of peace, and not of slander, might be properly expected. The word “brother” “might” be used as denoting any other man, or any one of the same nation; but the phrase which is added, “thine own mother’s son,” shows that it is here to be taken in the strictest sense.
Thou slanderest - literally, “Thou givest to ruin.” Prof. Alexander renders it, “Thou wilt aim a blow.” The Septuagint, the Vulgate, Luther, and DeWette understand it of slander.
Thine own mother’s son - It is to be remembered that where polygamy prevailed there would be many children in the same family who had the same father, but not the same mother. The nearest relationship, therefore, was where there was the same mother as well as the same father. To speak of a brother, in the strictest sense, and as implying the nearest relationship, it would be natural to speak of one as having the same mother. The idea here is, that while professing religion, and performing its external rites with the most scrupulous care, they were guilty of the basest crimes, and showed an entire want of moral principle and of natural affection. External worship, however zealously performed, could not be acceptable in such circumstances to a holy God.
