2 Samuel 9:8

English Standard Version

8 And he paid homage and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?” (1Sa 24:14; 2Sa 16:9) 

New International Version

8 Mephibosheth bowed down and said, ‘What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?’ 

New International Reader’s Version

8 Mephibosheth bowed down to David. He said, ‘Who am I? Why should you pay attention to me? I’m nothing but a dead dog.’ 

King James Version

8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am ? 

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