Psalms 50:20

50:20 You plot against your brother;

you slander your own brother.

Psalms 35:14

35:14 I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother.

I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.


tn Heb “you sit, against your brother you speak.” To “sit” and “speak” against someone implies plotting against that person (see Ps 119:23).

tn Heb “against the son of your mother you give a fault.”

tn Heb “like a friend, like a brother to me I walked about.”

sn I bowed down. Bowing down was a posture for mourning. See Ps 38:6.

tn Heb “like mourning for a mother [in] sorrow I bowed down.”