Psalms 50:18
If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
In Context
17Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
19Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
Cross References
Leviticus 20:10If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife, let then: be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.
Job 31:9If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:
Proverbs 2:16That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:
Isaiah 5:23That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.
Micah 7:3The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.
Romans 1:32Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:17-23
The Character of the Wicked. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done,… Read the whole commentary →