New Revised Standard Version
On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof.”

Contemporary English Version
He always finds out what's going on. I would have been risking my life to kill Absalom, because you would have let me take the blame."

New American Bible
Had I been disloyal and killed him, it would all have come out before the king, and you would stand aloof.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this could not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by me?

Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this could not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by me?

sought

2 Samuel 1:15,16 And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall upon him. And he struck him so that he died. . . .

2 Samuel 4:10-12 The man that told me, and said: Saul is dead, who thought he brought good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who should have been rewarded for his news. . . .

for there is no

2 Samuel 14:19,20 And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord, O king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these things which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he commanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy handmaid. . . .

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.