Psalm 50:20
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New International Version (©2011)
You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother's son.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You sit around and slander your brother--your own mother's son.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You sit, maligning your brother, slandering your mother's son.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

NET Bible (©2006)
You plot against your brother; you slander your own brother.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“You have been sitting and plotting against your brother; you have been mocking against the son of your mother.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You sit and talk against your own brother. You slander your own mother's son.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

American King James 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.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

English Revised Version
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

50:16-23 Hypocrisy is wickedness, which God will judge. And it is too common, for those who declare the Lord's statutes to others, to live in disobedience to them themselves. This delusion arises from the abuse of God's long-suffering, and a wilful mistake of his character and the intention of his gospel. The sins of sinners will be fully proved on them in the judgment of the great day. The day is coming when God will set their sins in order, sins of childhood and youth, of riper age and old age, to their everlasting shame and terror. Let those hitherto forgetful of God, given up to wickedness, or in any way negligent of salvation, consider their urgent danger. The patience of the Lord is very great. It is the more wonderful, because sinners make such ill use of it; but if they turn not, they shall be made to see their error when it is too late. Those that forget God, forget themselves; and it will never be right with them till they consider. Man's chief end is to glorify God: whoso offers praise, glorifies him, and his spiritual sacrifices shall be accepted. We must praise God, sacrifice praise, put it into the hands of the Priest, our Lord Jesus, who is also the altar: we must be fervent in spirit, praising the Lord. Let us thankfully accept God's mercy, and endeavour to glorify him in word and deed.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 20. - Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother. Professor Cheyne understands by "brother" any fellow-Israelite; but the parallel in the second hemistich - Thou slanderest thine own mother's son - implies that an actual brother is intended. It is one of the special characteristics of the reprobate to be "without natural affection" (Romans 1:31).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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, Matthew 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.

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The Mighty One Calls
…19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. 21These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes. …

Matthew 10:21 "Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
Job 19:18 Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.
Psalm 15:3 whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others;
Psalm 31:13 For I hear many whispering, "Terror on every side!" They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
Psalm 101:5 Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not tolerate.