Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own 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.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your 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 Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit. 20 Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son. 21 These things thou have done, and I kept silence. Thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
Cross References
Matthew 10:21
And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.
Leviticus 19:16
Thou shall not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people, neither shall thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor. I am LORD.
Psalm 31:18
Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.
Proverbs 10:18
He who hides hatred is of lying lips. And he who utters a slander is a fool.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed are ye when they revile you, and persecute you, and say every evil word, being deceitful against you because of me.
Luke 22:65
And they spoke many other things against him, railing against him.
1 Timothy 3:11
The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, without wine, faithful in all things.
Titus 2:3
Aged women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,
Revelation 12:10
And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now it came to pass, the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. Because the accuser of our brothers was cast out, who accuses them before