God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.
Parallel translations
- KJV O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
- BSB You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.
- NKJV O God, You know my foolishness; And my sins are not hidden from You.
- NASB ¶God, You know my foolishness, And my guilt is not hidden from You.
- NLT O God, you know how foolish I am; my sins cannot be hidden from you.
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Cross-references · 6
- Ps 38:9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
- Jer 16:17For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
- Ps 19:12Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
- Ps 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
- Ps 44:20–21If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;
- Ps 38:5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
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