When David saw the angel who was destroying the people, he said to the Lord, “I alone have sinned, and I, the shepherd, have done evil, but these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”
Job 19:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And if it were true that I have erred, my error would remain with me [I would be conscious of it]. American Standard Version (1901) And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. Common English Bible Have I really gone astray? If so, my error remains hidden inside me. Catholic Public Domain Version Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me. |
When David saw the angel who was destroying the people, he said to the Lord, “I alone have sinned, and I, the shepherd, have done evil, but these sheep, what have they done? Let your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”
These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my humiliation an argument against me,
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child is mine: it is only the person who sins who shall die.
For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive due recompense for actions done in the body, whether good or evil.