Job 7:20
I have sinned, what do I do to You, || O watcher of man? Why have You set me for a mark to You, || And I am for a burden to myself—and what?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19How long do You not look from me? You do not desist until I swallow my spittle.
Cross References
Job 3:24For before my food, my sighing comes, || And my roarings [are] poured out as waters.
Job 7:11Also I do not withhold my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2I say to God, Do not condemn me, || Let me know why You strive [with] me.
Job 13:26For You write bitter things against me, || And cause me to possess iniquities of my youth,
Job 16:12I have been at ease, and He breaks me, || And He has laid hold on my neck, || And He breaks me in pieces, || And He raises me to Him for a mark.
Job 31:33If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, || To hide 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 →