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OET (OET-LV) [fn] and_he/it_was when_finished Dāvid to_speaking DOM the_words the_these to Shāʼūl and_ Shāʼūl _he/it_said voice_of_your is_this son_of_my Dāvid and_ Shāʼūl _lifted_up voice_of_his and_wept.
24:17 Note: KJB: 1Sam.24.16
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_was when,finished Dāvid to,speaking DOM the,words the=these to/towards Shāʼūl and=he/it_said Shāʼūl ?,voice_of,your this son_of,my Dāvid and,lifted_up Shāʼūl voice_of,his and,wept )
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_was when,finished Dāvid to,speaking DOM the,words the=these to/towards Shāʼūl and=he/it_said Shāʼūl ?,voice_of,your this son_of,my Dāvid and,lifted_up Shāʼūl voice_of,his and,wept )
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_was when,finished Dāvid to,speaking DOM the,words the=these to/towards Shāʼūl and=he/it_said Shāʼūl ?,voice_of,your this son_of,my Dāvid and,lifted_up Shāʼūl voice_of,his and,wept )
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 (OET-LV) [fn] and_he/it_was when_finished Dāvid to_speaking DOM the_words the_these to Shāʼūl and_ Shāʼūl _he/it_said voice_of_your is_this son_of_my Dāvid and_ Shāʼūl _lifted_up voice_of_his and_wept.
24:17 Note: KJB: 1Sam.24.16
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.