InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse 1 Sam C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31
1 Sam 24 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22
OET-LV (SA1 24:18) [fn] And_he/it_said to Dāvid are_righteous you more_than_I if/because you you_have_dealt_out_to_me (the)_good and_I I_have_dealt_out_to_you (the)_evil.
24:18 Note: KJB: 1Sam.24.17
OET (OET-RV) and told David, “You’re more righteous than I am, because you were good to me even when I did evil things to you.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
צַדִּ֥יק אַתָּ֖ה מִמֶּ֑נִּי כִּ֤י אַתָּה֙ גְּמַלְתַּ֣נִי הַטּוֹבָ֔ה וַאֲנִ֖י גְּמַלְתִּ֥יךָ הָרָעָֽה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said to/towards Dāvid law-abiding/just you(ms) more,than_I that/for/because/then/when you(ms) you,have_dealt_out_to_me (the),good and,I I,have_dealt_out_to_you (the),evil )
If it would be more natural in your language, you could reverse the order of these phrases, since the second phrase gives the reason for the result that the first phrase describes. Alternate translation: [Since you did good to me, but I did evil to you, you are more righteous than I]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / events
אַתָּה֙ גְּמַלְתַּ֣נִי הַטּוֹבָ֔ה וַאֲנִ֖י גְּמַלְתִּ֥יךָ הָרָעָֽה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said to/towards Dāvid law-abiding/just you(ms) more,than_I that/for/because/then/when you(ms) you,have_dealt_out_to_me (the),good and,I I,have_dealt_out_to_you (the),evil )
Saul is describing one event before describing another event that preceded it. In your translation, you may wish to relate these events in the order in which they happened. Alternate translation: [even though I did evil to you, you then did good to me]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
אַתָּה֙ גְּמַלְתַּ֣נִי הַטּוֹבָ֔ה וַאֲנִ֖י גְּמַלְתִּ֥יךָ הָרָעָֽה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_said to/towards Dāvid law-abiding/just you(ms) more,than_I that/for/because/then/when you(ms) you,have_dealt_out_to_me (the),good and,I I,have_dealt_out_to_you (the),evil )
If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of good and evil, you could express these ideas in another way. Alternate translation: [you did something good to me, but I did something evil to you] or [even though I did something evil to you, you then did something good to me]
OET-LV (SA1 24:18) [fn] And_he/it_said to Dāvid are_righteous you more_than_I if/because you you_have_dealt_out_to_me (the)_good and_I I_have_dealt_out_to_you (the)_evil.
24:18 Note: KJB: 1Sam.24.17
OET (OET-RV) and told David, “You’re more righteous than I am, because you were good to me even when I did evil things to you.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.