Job 7:20
If I have sinned, what [injury] can I cause unto thee, O thou Guardian of men? why hast thou set me as an object for thee to strike at, so that I am become a burden to myself?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
19How long wilt thou not turn thy regard from me, nor let; me loose till I swallow down my spittle?
Cross References
Job 3:24For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.
Job 7:11Therefore will I also not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit: I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; let me know for what cause thou contendest against me.
Job 13:26That thou writest bitter decrees against me, and assignest unto me the iniquities of my youth;
Job 16:12I was at ease, but he hath crushed me; he hath also grasped me by the neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up unto himself as a mark;
Job 31:33If I covered up my transgressions like a common man, by hiding in my bosom my iniquity;
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 →