• 1 Samuel 20:3
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 3 But David swore further and said: “Your father surely knows that I have found favor in your eyes+ and would say, ‘Do not let Jonʹa·than know this or he will be upset.’ But as surely as Jehovah is living and as surely as you are* living, there is only a step between me and death!”+

  • 1 Samuel 20:3
    The Bible in Living English

    • 3* But David answered again “Your father knows perfectly well that you like me, and he thinks ‘Let Jonathan not know this, for fear he should be pained’; but, by Jehovah and by your life, I am just about a pace from death.”

  • 1 Samuel 20:3
    American Standard Version

    • 3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father knoweth well that I have found favor in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

  • 1 Samuel 20:3
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 3 But David sware yet further and said—Thy father doth know that I have found favour in thine eyes, therefore saith he,—Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he grieve; but indeed by the life of Yahweh, and by the life of thine own soul, surely there is but as it were a step betwixt me and death!