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What Are 'Secret Faults'?
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that "secret faults" are not just sins hidden from others, but sins hidden even from ourselves. These are errors we commit through ignorance, carelessness, or self-deception, without fully realizing they are wrong. The psalmist recognizes that God's standard is so perfect that we sin in ways we don't even perceive.
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Psalms
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 19:12
18th Century
Theologian
Who can understand his errors? — The word rendered "errors" is derived from a verb that means to wander, to go astray; then, to do wrong, to…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 19:12
19th Century
Bishop
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 previo…
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 19:11–12
19th Century
Preacher
Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. Who can understand his errors?
While David is…
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John Calvin
On Psalms 19:12
16th Century
Theologian
Who can understand his errors? This exclamation shows us what use we should make of the promises of the law, which have a condition attach…
John Gill
On Psalms 19:12
17th Century
Pastor
Who can understand [his] errors ?
&c.] Sin is an error, a wandering out of the way of God, swerving from the rule of…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 19:11–14
17th Century
Minister
God's word warns the wicked not to continue in his wicked way, and warns the righteous not to turn from his good way. There is a reward, not only a…