Job 7:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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?

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  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
  • Neh 9:6 : 6 Thou, [even] thou, [art] LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all [things] that [are] therein, the seas, and all that [is] therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
  • Job 7:11-12 : 11 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. 12 [Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
  • Job 9:29-31 : 29 [If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
  • Job 14:16 : 16 ¶ For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
  • Job 16:12-14 : 12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. 13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
  • Job 22:5 : 5 ¶ [Is] not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
  • Job 31:33 : 33 ¶ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
  • Job 33:9 : 9 I am clean without transgression, I [am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me.
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not;
  • Job 35:6 : 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.

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