Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageShe said to Elijah, 'What do you have against me, man of God? Have you come here to expose my sin and take my son's life?'
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GShe said to Eliyahu, 'What have I to do with you, O man of Elohim? Have you come to me to call my sin to mind and to put my son to death?'
KJV
King James VersionAnd she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
BSB
Berean Standard Bible“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”
Footnotes
*Mah-li valakh* (מַה-לִּי וָלָךְ)—literally 'what to me and to you?'—is a Hebrew idiom of sharp relational rupture, implying: 'we have no common ground here.' It recurs in 2 Sam. 16:10; 2 Kings 3:13; and Yeshua/Jesus uses the same form in John 2:4 at Cana, where it likewise signals a turning point. *Avoni* (עֲוֹנִי) = 'my iniquity'—the widow interprets her son's death as divine punishment for her guilt, a reflex of ancient theodicy. The text holds the tension without resolving it. FOG renders the idiom literally to preserve its Hebrew rhetorical force; FOG Message smooths it into natural English while keeping the accusatory edge.
