Psalms Chapter 73 verse 15 Holy Bible
If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.
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If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.
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If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.
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If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
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If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
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If I had said, "I will speak thus;" Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
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If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children; or, if I had said (Revised Version). If, when these feelings assailed me, and the lot of the ungodly man seemed to me much better than my own, I had resolved to speak out all my thoughts, and let them be generally known, then should I have dealt treacherously with (Revised Version) the generation of thy children. I should have deserted their cause; I should have hurt their feelings; I should have put a stumbling block in their way. Therefore, the psalmist implies, he said nothing - a reticence well worthy of imitation.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) If I say . . .--Or, If, thought I, I should reason thus, I should be faithless to the generation of thy sons. Or, perhaps, if it ever occurred to my mind to speak thus, the Hebrew often using two finite verbs to express one thought. (See, e.g., Psalm 73:8; Psalm 73:19.)