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Job 19:4

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19:4But even if it were7 true that I have erred,8

my error9 remains solely my concern!

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Footnotes

  1. 7 Job has held to his innocence, so the only way that he could say “I have erred” (שָׁגִיתִי, shagiti) is in a hypothetical clause like this.
  2. 8 There is a long addition in the : “in having spoken words which it is not right to speak, and my words err, and are unreasonable.”
  3. 9 The word מְשׁוּגָה (méshugah) is a . It is derived from שׁוּג (shug, “to wander; to err”) with root paralleling שָׁגַג (shagag) and שָׁגָה (shagah). What Job is saying is that even if it were true that he had erred, it did not injure them—it was solely his concern.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And even if it be true that I have erred,

my error remains with myself.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If it is true that I have gone astray,

my error remains my concern alone.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Even if it is true that I have sinned,

my mistake concerns only me.

NLTNew Living Translation

Even if I have sinned,

that is my concern, not yours.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And what is more, if I have truly erred,

my error remains with me.

KJV 1900King James Version

And be it indeed that I have erred,

Mine error remaineth with myself.