Job 7:20

If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, 1 O thou that understandest the mind of men? 1 Why hast thou made me as thine accuser, 1 And why am I a burden to thee? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

19How long dost thou not let me alone, 1 Nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle? 1

21Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, 1 And purged my sin? 1 But now I shall depart to the earth; 1 And in the morning, I am no more.

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Cross References

Job 3:24For my groaning comes before my food, 1 And I weep being beset with terror. 1

Job 7:11Then neither will I refrain my mouth: 1 I will speak being in distress; 1 Being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul. 1

Job 10:2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; 1 And wherefore hast thou thus judged me? 1

Job 13:26For thou hast written evil things against me, 1 And thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth. 1

Job 16:12When I was at peace he distracted me: 1 He took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: 1 He set me up as a mark. 1

Job 31:33Or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin 1

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 →

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