Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“You sit and speak against your brother;
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

You sit, maligning your brother,
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.

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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

God As Judge

19 "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 20 “You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.
21 These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Cross References

Matthew 10:21

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Proverbs 10:18

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Matthew 5:11

"Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Luke 22:65

And they said many other things against him, blaspheming him.

1 Timothy 3:11

Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:3

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach 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, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

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