Psalms 50:21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; [but] I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother's son thou utterest slander.
22Do but reflect on this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, with none to deliver.
Cross References
Exodus 3:14And God said unto Moses, I will be that I will be: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I will be hath sent me unto you.
Job 34:33Should he then according to thy view send a recompense, because thou hast rejected him? “Because thou must choose, and not I?” and what thou knowest, do speak.
Psalms 50:8Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
Psalms 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 109:1“To the chief musician, by David, a psalm.” O God of my praise, do not keep silence.
Ecclesiastes 8:11Because the punishment against evil deeds is not executed speedily, therefore is the heart of the sons of men filled up in them to do evil.
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 →