Job 7:20
I have sinned, What can I do for thee, thou watcher of men? Wherefore hast thou set me as thine object of attack, or have I become, unto thee, a burden?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
19How long wilt thou not look away from me? Wilt thou not let me alone, till I can swallow my spittle?
Cross References
Job 3:24For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:
Job 7:11I also, cannot restrain my mouth,—I must speak, in the anguish of my spirit, I must find utterance, in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2I say unto GOD, Do not hold me guilty, Let me know, on what account thou contendest with me!
Job 13:26For thou writest, against me, bitter things, and dost make me inherit the iniquities of my youth;
Job 16:12At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark:
Job 31:33If I covered, like Adam, my transgressions, by hiding in my bosom mine 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 →