Psalm 101:5 {100:5}
Good News Translation
I will get rid of anyone who whispers evil things about someone else; I will not tolerate anyone who is proud and arrogant.

New Revised Standard Version
One who secretly slanders a neighbor I will destroy. A haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not tolerate.

Contemporary English Version
Anyone who spreads gossip will be silenced; no one who is conceited will be my friend.

New American Bible
Whoever slanders a neighbor in secret I will reduce to silence. Haughty eyes and arrogant hearts I cannot endure.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

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Psalm 15:3 He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.

Psalm 50:20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:

Exodus 29:16 And when thou hast killed him, thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and pour round about the altar.

Exodus 23:1 Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.

Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.

Proverbs 10:18 In the multitude of words there shall not want sin: but he that refraineth his lips, is most wise.

Proverbs 20:19 Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets, and walketh deceitfully, and openeth wide his lips.

Proverbs 25:23 The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.

Ezekiel 22:9 Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst of thee.

1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

1 Timothy 3:11 The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3 The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well:

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Psalm 10:2-4 Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise. . . .

Psalm 18:27 For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

Psalm 138:6 For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.

1 Samuel 2:3 Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

Job 40:11,12 Scatter the proud in thy indignation, and behold every arrogant man, and humble him. . . .

Proverbs 6:16-19 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, . . .

Proverbs 30:13 A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.

Isaiah 2:11 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

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Luke 18:14 I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

1 Peter 5:5,6 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace. . . .

Context
I will Set No Worthless Thing Before My Eyes
4The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know. 5The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.6My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:1
Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.

Psalm 10:4
The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him:

Psalm 18:27
For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

Psalm 50:20
Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:

Psalm 131:1
A gradual canticle of David. Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me.

Psalm 138:6
For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.

Proverbs 6:17
A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,

Proverbs 25:23
The north wind driveth away rain, as doth a sad countenance a backbiting tongue.

Jeremiah 9:4
Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.

Psalm 101:4
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