Psalm 50:20

20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother's son.

Psalm 50:20 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 50:20

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.

Psalm 50:20 In-Context

18 When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association [is] with adulterers.

19 You give your mouth free rein for evil, and you harness your tongue to deceit.

20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother's son.

21 These [things] you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present [an argument] before your eyes.

22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear [you] apart, and there [will be] none to deliver.