Job 19:4

But even if it were ¹  true that I have erred, ²  my error ³  remains solely my concern!

If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.

"Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me.

And even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours.

Even if I have, somehow or other, gotten off the track, what business is that of yours?

And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.

And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me.

But even if it were ¹  true that I have erred, ²  my error ³  remains solely my concern!

¹ tn Job has held to his innocence, so the only way that he could say “I have erred” (שָׁגִיתִי, shagiti) is in a hypothetical clause like this.

² tn There is a long addition in the LXX: “in having spoken words which it is not right to speak, and my words err, and are unreasonable.”

³ tn The word מְשׁוּגָה (mÿshugah) is a hapax legomenon. It is derived from שׁוּג (shug, “to wander; to err”) with root paralleling שָׁגַג (shagag) and שָׁגָה (shagah). What Job is saying is that even if it were true that he had erred, it did not injure them – it was solely his concern.