KJV King James Version
Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].
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Psalm 19:12
Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
WEB World English Bible
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
ASV American Standard Version
Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,
Surrounding context — Psalm 19
9 The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of them [there is] great reward.
12 Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].
13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins]; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
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Psalm 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.Psalm 139:23-24Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:Job 6:24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.Jeremiah 17:9The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?Psalm 40:12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.1 Corinthians 4:4For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.Psalm 139:6[Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.Psalm 51:2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.Isaiah 64:6But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.Hebrews 9:7But into the second [went] the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and [for] the errors of the people:Leviticus 4:2-35Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD [concerning things] which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:Psalm 65:3Iniquities prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.Psalm 139:2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.Psalm 51:5-10Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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