2 Samuel 9:8 Catholic Bible: Mephibosheth bowed again and said, "I am no better than a dead dog, sir! Why should you be so good to me?"

Good News Translation
Mephibosheth bowed again and said, "I am no better than a dead dog, sir! Why should you be so good to me?"

New Revised Standard Version
He did obeisance and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon a dead dog such as I?”

Contemporary English Version
Mephibosheth knelt down again and said, "Why should you care about me? I'm worth no more than a dead dog."

New American Bible
Bowing low, he answered, “What am I, your servant, that you should pay attention to a dead dog like me?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?

a dead dog

2 Samuel 3:8 Why didst thou go in to my father's concubine? And he was exceedingly angry for the words of Isboseth, and said: Am I a dog's head against Juda this day, who have shewn mercy to the house of Saul thy father, and to his brethren and friends, and have not delivered thee into the hands of David, and hast thou sought this day against me to charge me with a matter concerning a woman?

2 Samuel 16:9 And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the king: Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? I will go, and cut off his head.

1 Samuel 24:14,15 After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea. . . .

1 Samuel 26:20 And now let not my blood be shed upon the earth before the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as the partridge is hunted in the mountains.

Matthew 15:26,27 Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs. . . .