New Revised Standard Version
David was afraid of God that day; he said, “How can I bring the ark of God into my care?”

Contemporary English Version
David was afraid what the LORD might do to him, and he asked himself, "Should I really be the one to take care of the sacred chest?"

New American Bible
David was afraid of God that day, and he said, “How can I bring in the ark of God to me?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he feared God at that time, saying: How can I bring in the ark of God to me?

And he feared God at that time, saying: How can I bring in the ark of God to me?

afraid of God

Numbers 17:12,13 And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, we all perish. . . .

1 Samuel 5:10,11 Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And when the ark of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people. . . .

1 Samuel 6:20 And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand before the Lord this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

Psalm 119:120 Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.

Isaiah 6:5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

Luke 5:8,9 Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying: Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. . . .

How

1 Kings 8:27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

Job 25:5,6 Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight. . . .

Matthew 25:24 But he that had received the one talent, came and said: Lord, I know that thou art a hard man; thou reapest where thou hast not sown and gatherest where thou hast not strewed.