Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother's son.
New American Standard Bible
You slander your own mother’s son.
King James Version
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Holman Bible
slandering your mother’s son.
International Standard Version
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
A Conservative Version
Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.
American Standard Version
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Amplified
“You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.
Darby Translation
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.
King James 2000
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
Modern King James verseion
You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, yea and slanderest thine 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.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou wouldst sit down - Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother's son, wouldst thou expose a fault: -
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.
Themes
Evil » Speech evil speaking » Backbiting
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Glory » Who glorifies the lord
Salvation » Who will see the salvation of God
Slander » The wicked addicted to
Slander » The nearest relations exposed to
Topics
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 50:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
God As Judge
19 You give your mouth free rein for evil, and you harness your tongue to deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother's son. 21 These [things] you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present [an argument] before your eyes.
Cross References
Matthew 10:21
"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,
Leviticus 19:16
You shall not go [about with] slander among your people; {you shall not endanger your neighbor's life}; I [am] Yahweh.
Psalm 31:18
Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against [the] righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.
Proverbs 10:18
He who conceals hatred [has] lips of deceit, and he who utters slander--he is a fool.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.
Luke 22:65
And they were saying many other [things] against him, reviling [him].
1 Timothy 3:11
The wives likewise [must be] dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in all [things].
Titus 2:3
Older women likewise [are to be] reverent in [their] behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,
Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, the one who accuses them before our God day and night.