New Revised Standard Version
If I had said, “I will talk on in this way,” I would have been untrue to the circle of your children.

Contemporary English Version
If I had said evil things, I would not have been loyal to your people.

New American Bible
Had I thought, “I will speak as they do,” I would have betrayed this generation of your children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.

If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.

offend

1 Samuel 2:24 Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.

Malachi 2:8 But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 18:6,7 But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. . . .

Romans 14:15,21 For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:11-13 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died? . . .

generation

Psalm 22:30 And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.

Psalm 24:6 This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: