Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother’s son. New Living Translation You sit around and slander your brother— your own mother’s son. English Standard Version You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. Berean Standard Bible You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. King James Bible Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. New King James Version You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son. New American Standard Bible “You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son. NASB 1995 “You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son. NASB 1977 “You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son. Legacy Standard Bible You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son. Amplified Bible “You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son. Christian Standard Bible You sit, maligning your brother, slandering your mother’s son. Holman Christian Standard Bible You sit, maligning your brother, slandering your mother’s son. American Standard Version Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son. Contemporary English Version you sat around gossiping, ruining the reputation of your own relatives." English Revised Version Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. GOD'S WORD® Translation You sit and talk against your own brother. You slander your own mother's son. Good News Translation You are ready to accuse your own relatives and to find fault with them. International Standard Version You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. Majority Standard Bible You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. NET Bible You plot against your brother; you slander your own brother. New Heart English Bible You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son. Webster's Bible Translation Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son. World English Bible You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionYou sit, you speak against your brother, "" You give slander against a son of your mother. Young's Literal Translation Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander. Smith's Literal Translation Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleSitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son: Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible You sit and speak against your brother, slandering your mother’s son. New Revised Standard Version You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your own mother’s child. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleYou sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated You have been sitting and plotting against your brother; you have been mocking against the son of your mother. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son. Brenton Septuagint Translation Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalize thy mother's son. Audio Bible Context The Mighty One Calls…19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. 20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. 21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.… Cross References Proverbs 6:16-19 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: / haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, / a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, ... James 4:11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it. Matthew 12:36-37 But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. / For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” Ephesians 4:31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice. Romans 1:29-30 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. Proverbs 10:18 The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool. Leviticus 19:16 You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD. 1 Peter 2:1 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. Colossians 3:8 But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Titus 3:2 to malign no one, and to be peaceable and gentle, showing full consideration to everyone. Proverbs 11:9 With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued. Matthew 5:22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell. 2 Timothy 3:1-3 But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. / For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, Proverbs 16:28 A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends. Galatians 5:14-15 The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” / But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another. Treasury of Scripture You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. speakest Psalm 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. 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. Luke 22:65 And many other things blasphemously spake they against him. slanderest 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. Proverbs 10:18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. 1 Timothy 3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. thine own 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. Jump to Previous Continually Evil Givest Mother Mother's Revilest Sit Sittest Slander Speak Speakest StatementsJump to Next Continually Evil Givest Mother Mother's Revilest Sit Sittest Slander Speak Speakest StatementsPsalm 50 1. The majesty of God in the church5. His order to gather his saints 7. The pleasure of God is not in ceremonies 14. but in sincerity of obedience You sit The phrase "You sit" suggests a position of comfort or complacency. In the Hebrew context, sitting often implies a settled state or a deliberate action. This is not a casual or accidental occurrence; it is a chosen posture. The act of sitting indicates a premeditated decision to engage in the behavior that follows. In the biblical narrative, sitting can also imply judgment or authority, as seen in the elders who sat at the city gates to make decisions. Here, it underscores the intentional nature of the sin being addressed. and malign your brother You slander your own mother's son your own mother's son Slanderest.--Literally, givest a thrust; but, from the parallelism, used of words that often hurt more than blows. Mother's son.--In a country where polygamy was practised, this marks a closer relationship than the more general "brother" would do. (See Song of Solomon 1:6, Note.) Verse 20. - Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother. Professor Cheyne understands by "brother" any fellow-Israelite; but the parallel in the second hemistich - Thou slanderest thine own mother's son - implies that an actual brother is intended. It is one of the special characteristics of the reprobate to be "without natural affection" (Romans 1:31).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew You sitתֵּ֭שֵׁב (tê·šêḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry and malign תְדַבֵּ֑ר (ṯə·ḏab·bêr) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue your brother, בְּאָחִ֣יךָ (bə·’ā·ḥî·ḵā) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 251: A brother, ) you תִּתֶּן־ (tit·ten-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set slander דֹּֽפִי׃ (dō·p̄î) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1848: A stumbling-block your own mother’s אִ֝מְּךָ֗ (’im·mə·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 517: A mother, ) son. בְּבֶֽן־ (bə·ḇen-) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1121: A son Links Psalm 50:20 NIVPsalm 50:20 NLT Psalm 50:20 ESV Psalm 50:20 NASB Psalm 50:20 KJV Psalm 50:20 BibleApps.com Psalm 50:20 Biblia Paralela Psalm 50:20 Chinese Bible Psalm 50:20 French Bible Psalm 50:20 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 50:20 You sit and speak against your brother (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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