Psalm 50:20 {49:20}
Good News Translation
You are ready to accuse your own relatives and to find fault with them.

New Revised Standard Version
You sit and speak against your kin; you slander your own mother’s child.

Contemporary English Version
you sat around gossiping, ruining the reputation of your own relatives."

New American Bible
You sit and speak against your brother, slandering your mother’s son.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

speakest

Psalm 31:18 Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:

Luke 22:65 And blaspheming, many other things they said against him.

slanderest

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.

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:

Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night.

thine own

Matthew 10:21 The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.

Context
The Mighty One Calls
19Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits. 20Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:21These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:21
The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.

Job 19:18
Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.

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 31:13
For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.

Psalm 101:5
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.

Psalm 50:19
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