Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor in secret. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour in secret. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor secretly: and all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who is smiting his neighbour in secret,, and all the people have said, Amen.

Cursed be he that smites his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.

Cursed be he who secretly strikes down his neighbor. And all the people shall say: Amen.

Maledictus qui percusscrit proximum suum abscondite: et dicet universus populus, Amen.

Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbour (o) secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
(o) For God that sees in secret, will avenge it.

Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly,.... And kills him, and the murder is not known; the curse of God follows such, and overtakes them sooner or later. Some interpret this of smiting with the tongue, of secret backbiting and slander; so the Targum of Jonathan,"that smiteth with the third tongue;''or false accusation:
and all the people shall say Amen; as disapproving of and condemning such a practice, even slander, and especially murder.

Smiteth - That is, killeth. This includes murder under colour of law, which is of all others the greatest affront to God. Cursed therefore is he that any ways contributes to accuse, or convict, or condemn an innocent person.