Job 7:20

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I haue offended, what shall I do vnto the, O thou preseruer of men? Why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Thy righteousnes is like the mountaynes of God: thy iudgementes are a great deapth, thou sauest both man and beast O God.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 O God, Lorde of hoastes: howe long wylt thou be angry at the prayer of thy people?
  • Neh 9:6 : 6 Thou art Lorde alone, thou hast made heauen and the heauen of all heauens with all their hoast, the earth and all thinges that are therein, the sea & all that is therin, & thou preseruest them al, & the hoast of heauen worshippeth thee.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water:
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrowes of the almightie are vpon me, the poyson therof hath drunke vp my spirite, and the terrible feares of God are set against me.
  • Job 7:11-12 : 11 Therfore I wil not spare my mouth, but I will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my mynde. 12 Am I a sea or a whale fish, that thou kepest me so in prison?
  • Job 9:29-31 : 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vayne? 30 If I washe my selfe with snowe water, and make myne handes neuer so cleane at the well: 31 Yet shalt thou dippe me in the myre, and mine owne clothes shal defile me.
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punishest me for the sinnes of my youth.
  • Job 14:16 : 16 For now thou numbrest all my goinges, and geuest no delay vnto my sinne.
  • Job 16:12-14 : 12 I was in wealth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, he hath all to shaken me, and set me as a marke for him selfe. 13 His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde. 14 He hath geuen me one wounde vpon an other, and is fallen vpon me lyke a giaunt.
  • Job 22:5 : 5 Is not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable?
  • Job 31:33 : 33 Haue I kept secrete my sinne, and hyd myne iniquitie, as Adam dyd?
  • Job 33:9 : 9 I am cleane without any fault, I am innocent, & there is no wickednesse in me.
  • Job 33:27 : 27 A respect hath he vnto men, let man then say, I haue offended, I did vnrighteously, & it hath done me no good:
  • Job 35:6 : 6 If thou hast sinned, what hast thou done against him? If thyne offences be many, what hast thou done vnto him?
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 Therfore thou wilt put them to flight: and direct thine arrowes agaynst their faces.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 21Why doest thou not pardon my trespasses, and take away myne iniquitie? Behold, nowe must I sleepe in the dust, and if thou sekest me to morowe in the morning, I shal not be.

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14If I dyd sinne, thou haddest an eye vnto me, and shalt not pronounce me innocent from myne offence.

    15If I haue done wickedly, wo is me therefore: If I haue done righteously, yet dare I not lift vp my head, so full am I of confusion, and see myne owne miserie.

  • 19Why goest thou not fro me, nor lettest me alone, so long till I may swalowe downe my spyttle?

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6That thou makest such inquisition for my wickednes, and searchest out my sinne?

    7Whereas thou knowest whether I shall do wickedly or no, and that none can deliuer me out of thyne hande.

  • Job 13:23-24
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    23How many are my misdeedes and sinnes? let me knowe my transgressions and offences.

    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie?

  • Job 7:11-12
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    11Therfore I wil not spare my mouth, but I will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my mynde.

    12Am I a sea or a whale fish, that thou kepest me so in prison?

  • 27A respect hath he vnto men, let man then say, I haue offended, I did vnrighteously, & it hath done me no good:

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    3O God my Lord, if I haue done any such thing: or if there be any wickednesse in my handes.

  • Ps 51:3-4
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    3For I do acknowledge my wickednesse: and my sinne is euer before me.

    4Agaynst thee, only agaynst thee I haue sinned and done this euyll in thy sight: that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying, and founde pure when thou art iudged.

  • 18Because I confesse my wickednesse: and am sory for my sinne.

  • Job 14:16-17
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    16For now thou numbrest all my goinges, and geuest no delay vnto my sinne.

    17Myne iniquitie is sealed vp as it were in a bagge, and thou addest punishement vnto my wickednesse.

  • 6If thou hast sinned, what hast thou done against him? If thyne offences be many, what hast thou done vnto him?

  • Job 9:28-29
    2 verses
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    28Then am I afrayde of all my sorowes, for I knowe that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.

    29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vayne?

  • 32If I haue gone amisse, enfourme thou me: If I haue done wrong, I wyll leaue of.

  • 9I will beare the wrath of the Lord, for I haue offended hym till he sit in iudgement vpon my cause, and see that I haue right: then will he bring me foorth to the light, and I shall see his righteousnesse.

  • 17What is man that thou doest magnifie him? and that thou settest thy heart vpon him?

  • 35Yet darest thou say, I am without sinne and giltlesse, Tushe, his wrath can not come vpon me: Beholde, I wyll reason with thee, because thou darest say, I haue not offended.

  • 3For thou sayest: what aduauntage wyll it be vnto thee, and what profite shall I haue of my sinne?

  • 9Who can say, I haue made my heart cleane, I am pure from my sinne?

  • 2I will say vnto God: O do not condempne me, but shewe me wherefore thou contendest so with me?

  • 22Let all their wickednesse come before thee, and do thou to them as thou hast done vnto me for all my trespasses: for my sorowe is very great, and my heart is heauy.

  • 4Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?

  • 8And Dauid sayde vnto God: I haue sinned exceedingly in doyng this thing: And nowe I besech thee, do away the wickednesse of thy seruaunt, for I haue done very foolyshly.

  • 26For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punishest me for the sinnes of my youth.

  • 20Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • 13O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.

  • 19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like asshes and dust.

  • 4I sayde, O God be mercifull vnto me: heale my soule, for I haue sinned agaynst thee.

  • 6Wherefore I geue myne owne selfe the blame, and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes.

  • 3Doest thou open thyne eyes vpon such one, and bringest me into thy iudgement?

  • 19What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye.

  • 7If my steppe hath turned out of the way, & myne heart walked after myne eyes, and if any blot haue cleaued to my handes:

  • 15What shall I say? The Lorde hath made a promise to me, yea and he hym selfe hath perfourmed it: I shall therefore so long as I lyue remember this bitternesse of my lyfe.

  • 1I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.

  • 5Therfore I haue made knowen my faultes vnto thee, and my righteousnes haue I not hid: I sayd I will confesse my wickednes vnto God, and thou forgauest the vnrighteousnes of my sinne. Selah.

  • 13That thy minde is so pufte vp against God, and lettest such wordes go out of thy mouth?

  • 6In my right I shoulde be a lyer: my wounde is incurable without my fault.

  • 3If thou O God wylt marke what is done amisse: O Lorde who can abide it?

  • 13Kepe thy seruaunt also from presumptuous sinnes let them not raigne ouer me: so I shall be perfect & voyde from all haynous offence.

  • 20Consider (O Lorde) howe I am troubled, my wombe is disquieted, my heart turneth about in me, and I am full of heauinesse, because I rebelled stubburnly: the sworde hurteth me without, and within I am lyke vnto death.

  • 14When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him?

  • 7There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.

  • 4For my manyfolde wickednes is gone ouer my head: and like a sore burthen is to heauie for me to beare.