Job 19:4
Yes 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.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
In Context
3You⌃ speak against me; you⌃ do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.
5But alas! for you⌃ magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.
Cross References
2 Samuel 24:17And David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel striking the people, and he said, Behold, it is I that have done wrong, + 24:17 Alex. adds, 'and I the shepherd have done wickedly.' but these sheep what have they done? Let your hand, I pray you, be upon me, and upon my father's house.
Proverbs 9:12Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. + 9:12 Heb. — to beginning of verse 13. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:2-8
The Reply of Job to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not… Read the whole commentary →