20 You sit and (A)speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.

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20 You sit and testify against your brother(A)
    and slander your own mother’s son.

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“Let everyone (A)be on guard against his neighbor,
And (B)do not trust any brother;
Because every (C)brother utterly [a]betrays,
And every neighbor (D)goes about as a slanderer.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:4 I.e., like Jacob (a play on words)

“Beware of your friends;(A)
    do not trust anyone in your clan.(B)
For every one of them is a deceiver,[a](C)
    and every friend a slanderer.(D)

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  1. Jeremiah 9:4 Or a deceiving Jacob