Holy Scripture
Psalms 49:20
A church father on this verse
“But wherefore this? What he has written in the middle of the Psalm, the same also he has writ at the end: "Man, though he was in honour, understood not, was compared to the beasts without sense, and was made like to them" [Psalm 49:20]. But you, brethren, consider that you be men made after the image and likeness of G…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, And didst scandalize thy mother’s son.
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In context
18If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, And hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.
19Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, And thy tongue has framed deceit.
— Psalms 49:20 —
21These things thou didst, and I kept silence: Thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee; But I will reprove thee, and set thine offenses before thee.
22Now consider these things, ye that forget God, Lest he rend you, and there be no deliverer.