Job 7:20
If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O you that understand the mind of men? why have you made me as your accuser, and why am I a burden to you?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
19How long do you not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?
Cross References
Job 3:24For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.
Job 7:11Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?
Job 13:26for you have written evil things against me, and you have compassed me with the sins of my youth.
Job 16:12For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.
Job 31:33or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin;
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 →