1 Samuel 24:11

Louis Segond

Vois, mon père, vois donc le pan de ton manteau dans ma main. Puisque j'ai coupé le pan de ton manteau et que je ne t'ai pas tué, sache et reconnais qu'il n'y a dans ma conduite ni méchanceté ni révolte, et que je n'ai point péché contre toi. Et toi, tu me dresses des embûches, pour m'ôter la vie!

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Voici, tes yeux ont vu, en ce jour, que l'Éternel t'avait livré aujourd'hui entre mes mains, dans la caverne, et l'on m'a dit de te tuer; mais je t'ai épargné, et j'ai dit: Je ne porterai point la main sur mon seigneur; car il est l'oint de l'Éternel.

Darby's French Translation
(24:12) Et regarde, mon père, regarde le pan de ta robe dans ma main; car en ce que j'ai coupé le pan de ta robe et ne t'ai point tué, sache et vois qu'il n'y a point de mal en ma main, ni de transgression, et que je n'ai pas péché contre toi; et toi, tu fais la chasse à mon âme pour la prendre.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Voici, aujourd'hui tes yeux ont vu que l'Eternel t'avait livré aujourd'hui en ma main dans la caverne, et on m'a dit que je te tuasse; mais je t'ai épargné, et j'ai dit : Je ne porterai point ma main sur mon Seigneur; car il est l'Oint de l'Eternel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my father: 1 Samuel 18:27, 2 Kings 5:13, Proverbs 15:1

neither evil: 1 Samuel 26:18, Psalms 7:3, Psalms 7:4, Psalms 35:7, John 15:25

thou huntest: 1 Samuel 23:14, 1 Samuel 23:23, 1 Samuel 26:20, Job 10:16, Psalms 140:11, Lamentations 4:18, Ezekiel 13:18, Micah 7:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:15 - done Numbers 35:20 - by laying 1 Samuel 20:1 - What have 1 Samuel 22:14 - And who 1 Samuel 25:8 - thy son 1 Samuel 25:28 - evil hath 1 Chronicles 12:17 - God Psalms 15:3 - doeth Psalms 17:9 - deadly enemies Psalms 18:20 - cleanness Psalms 25:21 - General Psalms 35:19 - that hate Psalms 37:14 - slay Psalms 59:3 - not Psalms 119:121 - I have Psalms 140:2 - continually Proverbs 28:12 - but Jeremiah 16:16 - hunters Acts 25:5 - if 1 Corinthians 8:12 - when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, my father,.... So he was in a natural sense, as having married his daughter; and in a civil sense, as he was a king, and was, or ought to have been, the father of his country, and to treat his subjects as his children, and David among the rest:

see, yea see, the skirt of thy robe in my hand; look on it again and again; view it with the eyes of thy body intently, that thou mayest be satisfied of it, and behold with the eyes of thy mind and understanding, and consider that I could as easily have had thine head in my hand as the skirt of thy robe; and here see an instance and proof of the integrity and sincerity of my heart, and cordial affections to thee, and an evidence against all the charges and accusations of my enemies, and that I have no ill design upon thy person and life, and am far from seeking thy hurt, as they say:

for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not; not only did that to show that he was in his power, but did not cut off his head, as he could:

know thou, and see, that [there is] neither evil nor transgression in mine hand; this might be a full conviction to him that he had no ill, neither in his heart nor hand, to do unto him:

and I have not sinned against thee; done nothing to offend him, never acted against his will, nor disobeyed any of his commands, or had been guilty of one overt act of treason or rebellion, but all the reverse:

yet thou huntest my soul to take it; pursued him from place to place, hunted him in the wildernesses of Ziph and Maon, and upon the rocks of Engedi, as a partridge on the mountains, 1 Samuel 26:20; and lay in wait for him to kill him, as the Targum: he may be thought to have penned the "seventh" psalm at this time, or on this occasion; at least there are some passages in it, which seem to refer to his present circumstances, Psalms 7:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My father - The respectful address of a junior and an inferior (see 2 Kings 5:13, and compare 1 Samuel 24:16; 1 Samuel 25:8).