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Psalm 19:12
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
10They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
11Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
12Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.
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Hidden errors expose a limit in self-knowledge: even after praising God’s commands, the speaker asks for forgiveness for faults he cannot discern.
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Psalm 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.Hidden errors and secret sins share the theme of concealed wrongdoing; Psalm 90 says such sins stand in God’s light.
1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.Psalm 19 asks God to forgive errors; John speaks of God’s faithfulness to forgive and cleanse those who confess.
Psalm 139:23–24Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.Both prayers turn to God concerning the inner life, asking for forgiveness in Psalm 19 and searching in Psalm 139.
Job 6:24“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.Both speakers acknowledge a need to understand their errors; Job asks for instruction, while Psalm 19 asks for forgiveness.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?Both texts question human self-knowledge: Psalm 19 asks about discerning errors, and Jeremiah asks who can know the deceitful heart.
Romans 7:15For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.Both texts describe limits in understanding oneself, with Romans naming the conflict between desired conduct and actual deeds.
Psalm 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart …Both speakers acknowledge personal wrongdoing, though Psalm 19 stresses hidden errors and Psalm 40 describes sins that overwhelm the speaker.
Leviticus 4:2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, and does any one …Hidden errors and unintentional sins both raise the matter of wrongdoing that can occur without deliberate intent.
1 Corinthians 4:4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.Both texts limit confidence in self-assessment; Paul adds that knowing nothing against himself does not establish his innocence before the Lord.
Psalm 51:2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.Both prayers ask God to deal with the speaker’s wrongdoing, using the language of forgiveness in one and cleansing in the other.
1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.Both passages concern release from sin: Psalm 19 asks forgiveness, and John speaks of cleansing through Jesus Christ’s blood.
Leviticus 5:17“If anyone sins, doing any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.Both texts treat unrecognized wrongdoing as needing to be addressed; Leviticus states that lack of knowledge does not remove guilt.
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Encouragement
You do not need a complete account of your faults before asking God for mercy. The prayer reaches beyond what the speaker can discern: “Forgive me from hidden errors.”
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