He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”
Parallel translations
- KJV And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
- BSB Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”
- NKJV Then he bowed himself, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I?”
- NASB Again he prostrated himself, and said, “What is your servant, that you should be concerned about a dead dog like me?”
- NLT Mephibosheth bowed respectfully and exclaimed, “Who is your servant, that you should show such kindness to a dead dog like me?”
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- Matt 15:26–27But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
- 2 Sam 16:9Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”
- 1 Sam 24:14–15Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
- 2 Sam 3:8Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!
- 1 Sam 26:20Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
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