Verse 20
Job 7:20
World English Bible, British Edition
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?
Original Language Text
hebrew
חָטָ֡אתִי מָ֤ה אֶפְעַ֨ל לָ/ךְ֮ נֹצֵ֪ר הָ/אָ֫דָ֥ם לָ֤/מָה שַׂמְתַּ֣/נִי לְ/מִפְגָּ֣ע לָ֑/ךְ וָ/אֶהְיֶ֖ה עָלַ֣/י לְ/מַשָּֽׂא
English Translation
I have sinned; what shall I do to you, keeper of mankind? Why have you made me a burden to you?
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Chapter 7 Context
1
“Isn’t a man forced to labour on earth?
Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
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2
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow,
as a hireling who looks for his wages,
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3
so I am made to possess months of misery,
wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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4
When I lie down, I say,
‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’
I toss and turn until the dawnin...
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5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust.
My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
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6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
and are spent without hope.
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7
Oh remember that my life is a breath.
My eye will no more see good.
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8
The eye of him who sees me will see me no more.
Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
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9
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away,
so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
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10
He will return no more to his house,
neither will his place know him any more.
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11
“Therefore I will not keep silent.
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit.
I will complain in the...
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12
Am I a sea, or a sea monster,
that you put a guard over me?
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13
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me.
My couch will ease my complaint,’
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14
then you scare me with dreams
and terrify me through visions,
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15
so that my soul chooses strangling,
death rather than my bones.
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16
I loathe my life.
I don’t want to live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
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17
What is man, that you should magnify him,
that you should set your mind on him,
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18
that you should visit him every morning,
and test him every moment?
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19
How long will you not look away from me,
nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
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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...
21
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity?
For now will I lie down in the dus...
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