Psalms 50:20
You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
BSB
ASV
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
KJV
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
LETTER 52.14 (420)
Beware also of a blabbing tongue and of itching ears. Neither detract from others nor listen to detractors.… Keep your tongue from caviling, and watch over your words. Know that in judging others you are passing sentence on yourself and that you are yourself guilty of the faults that you blame in them. It is no excuse to say, "If others tell me things, I cannot be rude to them." No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils on the shooter of it.
Thou sittest,.... Either in the chair of Moses, or on the seat of judgment, in the great sanhedrim of the nation; or, as Aben Ezra paraphrases it, "in the seat of the scornful"; and speakest against thy brother; even to pass sentence upon him, to put him to death for professing faith in Christ, Mat 10:21; thou slanderest thine own mother's son; the apostles and disciples of Christ, who were their brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh; and even our Lord Jesus Christ himself, who was bone of their bone, and flesh of their flesh.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother. He sits down to it, makes it his meat, studies it, resolves upon it, becomes a master of defamation, occupies the chair of calumny. His nearest friend is not safe, his dearest relative escapes not. Thou slanderest thine own mother's son. He ought to love him best, but he has an ill word for him. The son of one's own mother was to the Oriental a very tender relation; but the wretched slanderer knows no claims of kindred.
They are unworthy to use even the words of God's law. Their hypocrisy and vice are exposed by illustrations from sins against the seventh, eighth, and ninth commandments. God, no longer (even in appearance) disregarding such, exposes their sins and threatens a terrible punishment.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 5:11Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
leads to
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.
You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
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Matthew 10:21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
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You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
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Leviticus 19:16You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
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“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.