2 Samuel 20:20

WEB

²⁰Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

KJV

²⁰And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

BSB

²⁰“Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!

FBV

²⁰“Certainly not!” Joab answered. “It's not what I want—to destroy or tear down this town!

Extra References

Job 21:16

¹⁶Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

2 Samuel 23:17

¹⁷He said, “Be it far from me, LORD, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

Luke 10:29

²⁹But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

Proverbs 28:13

¹³He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

¹⁰But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

Job 22:18

¹⁸Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Jeremiah 17:9

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?