Job 7:20
If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
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In Context
19How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
Job 7:11“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Job 13:26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Job 16:12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
Job 31:33if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
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 →