But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.
Parallel translations
- KJV But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
- BSB But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped.
- NKJV But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; My steps had nearly slipped.
- NASB But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling, My steps had almost slipped.
- NLT But as for me, I almost lost my footing. My feet were slipping, and I was almost gone.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
- 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
- Ps 116:8For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
- Ps 38:16For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
- Ps 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
- Josh 24:15If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
- Ps 5:7But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
- Ps 17:15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
- Rom 7:23–24but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
- 1 Chr 22:7David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
- 1 Sam 12:23Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
- Ps 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
- Job 12:5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
- Job 21:4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
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