Job 7:20 · KJV
“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?”
— Job 7:20
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I {shall} not {be}.
Job 7 — Context
And {that} thou shouldest visit him every morning, {and} try him every moment?
19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
20I 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?
21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I {shall} not {be}.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Job 7:11-12
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}
Psalms 36:6
Thy righteousness {is} like the great mountains; thy judgments {are} a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. {the...: Heb. the mountains of God}
Job 33:9
I am clean without transgression, I {am} innocent; neither {is there} iniquity in me.
Psalms 21:12
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, {when} thou shalt make ready {thine arrows} upon thy strings against the face of them. {shalt thou...: or, thou shalt set them as a butt} {back: Heb. shoulder}
Psalms 80:4
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? {be...: Heb. smoke}
Job 22:5
{Is} not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?