Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against [me].
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Et si j'eusse attenté perfidement à sa vie, rien n'aurait été caché au roi, et tu aurais été toi-même contre moi.
KJV
Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against [me].
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 194 (Migne)
possem, propter quod dico: «Fili mi Absalon, quis mihi det, ut ego moriar pro te, fili mi Absalon (II Reg. XVIII, 13) .» En ego verus David pro me persequentibus in cruce oro, dicens: «Pater, ignosce illis, quia nesciunt quid faciunt (Luc. XXIII, 34) .» En ego Christianus pro me…
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