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Psalms 19:12

Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

KJV

Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

ASV

גַּֽם עַ֭בְדְּ/ךָ נִזְהָ֣ר בָּ/הֶ֑ם בְּ֝/שָׁמְרָ֗/ם עֵ֣קֶב רָֽב

Hebrew

Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,

YLT

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

גַּם
gm
adverb · 764×
ךָ
k
noun · 791×
נִזְהָ֔ר
nzhr
verb · 23×
עֵ֣קֶב
'qb
noun · 15×
רַב
rb
verb · 458×
שֹׁמְרֵ֥י
shmry
verb · 467×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 7.—That We Ought Not to Expect to Find Any Efficient Cause of the Evil Will. Let no one, therefore, look for an efficient cause of the evil will; for it is not efficient, but deficient, as the will itself is not an effecting of something, but a defect. For defection from that which supremely is, to that which has less of being,—this is to begin to have an evil will. Now…
The heavens declare the glory of God. David first shows that God reveals himself in the works of creation — a general revelation available to all peoples. But the heavens, though they speak eloquently, are not sufficient for salvation. Therefore David turns to the law of the Lord, which is perfect, converting the soul. The two books of revelation — nature and Scripture — comple…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 4:4 — For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  • 1Cor 4:4 — For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  • 1John 1:7 — But 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.
  • 1John 1:9 — If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • Ezek 45:20 — And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.
  • Gal 5:17 — For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
  • Heb 9:7 — But 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:
  • Heb 10:26 — For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
  • Isa 64:6 — But 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.
  • Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Job 6:24 — Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
  • Job 6:24 — Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
  • Job 34:32 — That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
  • Lev 4:2 — Speak 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 t
  • Lev 4:2 — Speak 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 t
  • Lev 5:17 — And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
  • Phil 3:9 — And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
  • Ps 40:12 — For 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.
  • Ps 40:12 — For 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.
  • Ps 51:2 — Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
  • Ps 51:2 — Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
  • Ps 51:5 — Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
  • Ps 65:3 — Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
  • Ps 69:5 — O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
  • Ps 90:8 — Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
  • Ps 90:8 — Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
  • Ps 139:2 — Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
  • Ps 139:6 — Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
  • Ps 139:23 — Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
  • Rom 7:15 — For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
  • Rom 7:21 — I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.