Job 7:20
I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome to myself?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
19How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?
Cross References
Job 3:24Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
Job 7:11Wherefore I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.
Job 13:26For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.
Job 16:12God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 31:33If as a man I have hid 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 →