Psalms 19:12 · World English Bible
Psalms 19:12 Meaning Who Can Discern His Errors
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
What does Psalms 19:12 mean?
A person can polish the faults he can see and never touch the ones folded out of sight, the small vanity in a good deed, the envy dressed as fair judgment. The real danger is the honest belief that the account is clean, since the dirt a mirror cannot show itself is the dirt that stays.
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A person can polish the faults he can see and never touch the ones folded out of sight, the small vanity in a good deed, the envy dressed as fair judgment. The real danger is the honest belief that the account is clean, since the dirt a mirror cannot show itself is the dirt that stays.
The cure is to ask for the light rather than trust the reflection, praying to be shown what the eye keeps missing. Where the person's own seeing runs out, God is present as the one gaze that misses nothing and still bends toward forgiveness.
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Live Psalms 19:12 today
- At the end of today, look back over the last few hours and ask to be shown one thing you got wrong and did not see at the time. Do not defend it, just let it be shown.
- Ask one person who knows you well what you do that is hard to be around. Then say thank you and sit with it instead of explaining.
- When you catch yourself building the case for why you were right in an argument today, stop and ask what your part was. The part you cannot see is usually the part that matters.
What might be true about me that everyone sees except me?
The same truth in other traditions
Dhammapada 252
Other people's faults are easy to spot and our own are nearly invisible, like something hidden from the person carrying it. We sift everyone else and skip ourselves.
Stoicism · Seneca
He ended each day by going back over it and asking where he had gone wrong, treating himself as someone worth examining rather than someone already cleared. The review is the point, not the verdict.
Zen
A mirror only reflects when the dust is off it, and dust lands so slowly that nobody sees it arrive. The work is steady wiping, not a single cleaning.
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