Job 7:20
I have sinned; what should I do for you, O keeper of men? Why have you set me against you, so that I have become burdensome even to myself?
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In Context
19How long will you not spare me, nor release me to ingest my saliva?
Cross References
Job 3:24Before I eat, I sigh; and like overflowing waters, so is my howl,
Job 7:11And because of this, I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the affliction of my spirit. I will converse from the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way.
Job 13:26For you write bitter things against me, and you want to consume me for the sins of my youth.
Job 16:12God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
Job 31:33if, as man does, I have hidden my sin and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom;
Matthew Henry on Job 7:18-21
17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in… Read the whole commentary →