Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
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Gill's Exposition
These things hast thou done,.... "These evil works", as the Targum; which they had done over and over again without remorse, with the greatest pleasure, and with promises of impunity to themselves.…
Barnes' Notes
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother - To the general character of falsehood and slander there is now added the fact that they were guilty of this in the most aggravated manner conceivable -…
God, by the psalmist, having instructed his people in the right way of worshipping him and keeping up their communion with him, here directs his speech to the wicked, to hypocrites, whether they were…
Cambridge Bible
Thou sittestemphasises the deliberateness of the slander. Cp. "the session of scorners," i. 1. Thy brothermight mean any Israelite; but the alternative thine own mother's son(cp. Psa 69:8, note) in…
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