the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Job 19:4
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Even if it is true that I have sinned,my mistake concerns only me.
If it is true that I have erred, My error remains with myself.
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
But even if it were true that I have erred, my error remains solely my concern!
"And if it were true that I have erred, My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it].
"Even if I have truly done wrong, My error stays with me.
If it is true that I have erred, My error remains with myself.
And though I had in deede erred, mine errour remaineth with me.
Even if I have truly erred,My error lodges with me.
Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
Even if I have sinned, you haven't been harmed.
Even if it's true that I made a mistake, my error stays with me.
And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Even if I have sinned, it is my problem, not yours!
If indeed I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Even if I have done wrong, how does that hurt you?
And what is more, if I have truly erred, my error remains with me.
And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.
yf I go wronge, I go wronge to my self.
And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.
And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
And be it indeed that I haue erred, mine errour remaineth with my selfe.
Be it that I haue erred in deede, myne errour then remaineth with my selfe.
Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself) in having spoken words which it was not right to speak; and my words err, and are unreasonable.
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Forsothe and if Y `koude not, myn vnkynnyng schal be with me.
And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with myself.
And be it indeed [that] I have erred, my error remaineth with myself.
And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me.
Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours.
Even if it is true that I have done wrong, it stays with me.
And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.
And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.
For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.
"Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I have erred: Job 11:3-6
mine: 2 Samuel 24:17, Proverbs 9:12, Ezekiel 18:4, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Galatians 6:5
Reciprocal: Job 10:1 - I will leave
Cross-References
Now the people of Sodom were very evil and were always sinning against the Lord .
Then the Lord said, "I have heard many complaints against the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. They are very evil.
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting near the city gate. When he saw them, he got up and went to them and bowed facedown on the ground.
Lot went outside to them, closing the door behind him.
Look, that little town over there is not too far away. Let me run there. It's really just a little town, and I'll be safe there."
and destroyed those cities. He also destroyed the whole Jordan Valley, everyone living in the cities, and even all the plants.
Then the whole Israelite community grumbled to Moses and Aaron in the desert.
"You must not do wrong just because everyone else is doing it. If you are a witness in court, you must not ruin a fair trial. You must not tell lies just because everyone else is.
because they cannot sleep until they do evil. They cannot rest until they harm someone.
a mind that thinks up evil plans, feet that are quick to do evil,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And be it indeed [that] I have erred,.... Which is a concession for argument's sake, but not an acknowledgment that he had erred; though it is possible he might have erred, and it is certain he did in some things, though not in that respect with which he was charged; "humanum est errare", all men are subject to mistakes, good men may err; they may err in judgment, or from the truth in some respect, and be carried away for a while and to some degree with the error the wicked, though they shall be turned from it again; they may err in practice, and wander from the way of God's commandments; and indeed their strayings and aberrations of this sort are so many, that David says, "who can understand his errors?" Psalms 19:12; and they may err in words, or make a mistake in speech; but then no man should be made an offender for a word for he must be a perfect man that is free from mistakes of this kind: now Job argues that supposing this to be his case in any of the above instances; yet, says he,
mine error remaineth with myself; I only am chargeable with it, and answerable for it; it is nothing to you, and why should you trouble yourselves about it? it will not be imputed to you, nor will you suffer on account of it; or, admitting I have imbibed an error, I do not publish it abroad; I keep it to myself; it lies and lodges in my own breast, and nobody is the worse for it: or "let it remain", or "lodge with me" k; Why should my mistakes be published abroad, and all the world be made acquainted with them? or else this expresses his resolution to abide by what his friends called an error; and then the so is, if this is an error which I have asserted, that God afflicts both good and bad men, and that afflictions are no argument of a man's being an hypocrite and a wicked man, I am determined to continue in it; I will not give it up, I will hold it fast; it shall remain with me as a principle never to be departed from; or it may be rather his meaning is, that this notion he had imbibed would remain with him, and was likely to do so, for anything they had said, or could say to the contrary.
k אתי תלין "mecum maneat", Beza; to the same sense Mercerus, Schmidt, Junius and Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And be it indeed that I have erred - Admitting that I have erred, it is my own concern. You have a right to reproach and revile me in this manner.
Mine error abideth with myself - I must abide the consequences of the error.” The design of this seems to be to reprove what he regarded as an improper and meddlesome interference with his concerns. Or it may be an expression of a willingness to bear all the consequences himself. He was willing to meet all the fair results of his own conduct.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 19:4. And be it indeed that I have erred — Suppose indeed that I have been mistaken in any thing, that in the simplicity of my heart I have gone astray, and that this matter remains with myself, (for most certainly there is no public stain on my life,) you must grant that this error, whatsoever it is, has hurt no person except myself. Why then do ye treat me as a person whose life has been a general blot, and whose example must be a public curse?
