Then Jacob got angry and argued with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, “What’s my crime? What’s my sin that you’ve hotly pursued me?
1 Samuel 20:32 - Tree of Life Version But Jonathan answered his father Saul, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Jonathan answered Saul his father, Why should he be killed? What has he done? American Standard Version (1901) And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore should he be put to death? what hath he done? Common English Bible But Jonathan answered his father Saul, “Why should David be executed? What has he done?” Catholic Public Domain Version Then Jonathan, answering his father Saul, said: "Why should he die? What has he done?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Jonathan answering Saul his father said: Why shall he die? what hath he done? |
Then Jacob got angry and argued with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, “What’s my crime? What’s my sin that you’ve hotly pursued me?
Do not be friends with one given to anger or associate with a hot-tempered person,
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the bosom of fools.
This is a misery in everything done under the sun: that the same destiny awaits everyone. Moreover, the hearts of all humans are full of evil, and folly is in their hearts during their lives—after that they die.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?
But Pilate said, “Why? What evil has He done?” But they kept shouting all the more, saying, “Let Him be executed!”
And a third time he spoke to them, “Why? What evil has this One done? I have found in Him no fault deserving of death. Therefore, I will scourge and release Him.”
“Our Torah doesn’t judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”
and Saul hurled the spear, thinking, “I’ll pin David to the wall!” But David eluded him—twice.
So Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “May the king not sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very beneficial for you;
For he put his life in his hand and killed the Philistine, and Adonai won a great victory for all Israel—you saw it and rejoiced. So why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David without a cause?”
Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah, came before Jonathan and said, “What have I done? What is my crime? What is my sin against your father that he should be seeking my life?”
If he says thus, ‘Very well,’ then your servant is safe; but if he becomes very angry, then know that he is determined to harm me.
Then Ahimelech answered the king saying, “Who among all your servants is as trusted as David, the king’s son-in-law, a captain of the royal guard, and honored in your house?