Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 19:12

"Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults]." — Psalms 19:12 (ASV)

His praise for the Law was not Pharisaic or formal, for the poet immediately expresses his sense of his own inability to keep it. If we were previously reminded of St. Paul’s words, The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good (Romans 7:12), his own spiritual experience, contained in the same chapter, is recalled here: For the good that I would I do not: but the evil that I would not, that I do.

Who can understand. — In the original, the abruptness of the question is very marked and significant. Errors who marks? From unconscious ones clear me, that is, pronounce me innocent, not cleanse, as in the Authorized Version.