Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageAnd now, Yahweh my God, You have made Your servant king in place of David my father — yet I am only a young man, and I don't know how to lead or how to govern.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GAnd now, YHWH my Elohim, You have made Your servant king in place of David my father — though I am but a young lad; I do not know how to go out or come in.
KJV
King James VersionAnd now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleAnd now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.
Footnotes
Go out or come in' (*yatsa' and bo'*) is a Hebrew idiom for the full scope of public leadership — military command, judicial authority, civic administration. It is not a confession of literal geographical confusion but of total inexperience in the responsibilities of kingship. The word *na'ar* (young lad/youth) may carry some rhetorical self-deprecation — Solomon was likely in his late teens or early twenties — but the humility is genuine and covenantally significant: the wisest prayer begins with acknowledged insufficiency. FOG preserves the Hebrew idiom intact; FOG Message renders its functional meaning for natural readability.