29"Now what have I done?" said David. "Can't I even speak?"


In Context

26 David asked the men standing near him, "What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

27 They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, "This is what will be done for the man who kills him."

28 When Eliab, David's oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, "Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the desert? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle."

29 "Now what have I done?" said David. "Can't I even speak?"

30 He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before.

31 What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.

1st Samuel 17:29 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:29And David said, What have I now done? [Is there] not a cause?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:29And David said: What have I done? is there not cause to speak?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:29And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:29And David said, What have I now done? Was it not laid upon me?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:29And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:29And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:29David said, |What have I now done? Is there not a cause?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:29And David saith, 'What have I done now? is it not a word?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:29And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?