Job 7:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חָטָ֡אתִי מָ֤ה אֶפְעַ֨ל ׀ לָךְ֮ נֹצֵ֢ר הָאָ֫דָ֥ם לָ֤מָה שַׂמְתַּ֣נִי לְמִפְגָּ֣ע לָ֑ךְ וָאֶהְיֶ֖ה עָלַ֣י לְמַשָּֽׂא

Transliteration

Ḥāṭā'ṯî what 'ef'al to you nōtsêr the hā'āḏām why śamtanî to lĕmifgā' to you and wā'ehyeh upon me to lĕmaśśā'

Grammar Details

*ḥāṭā'ṯî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have sinned
*māh*: interrogative pronoun - what?
*'ef'al*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I do/shall do
*lāḵ*: preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to you
*nōtsêr*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - watcher/keeper of
*hā*: definite article - the
*'āḏām*: noun, masculine singular - man/mankind
*lāmāh*: interrogative adverb - why?
*śamtanî*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - you have set me
*lĕ*: preposition - to/for
*mifgā'*: noun, masculine singular - target/mark
*wa*: conjunction - and
*'ehyeh*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I am
*'ālay*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - upon me
*maśśā'*: noun, masculine singular - burden

Word Meanings

*ḥāṭā'ṯî*: I have sinned/I sin
*'ef'al*: I do/shall do/can do
*nōtsêr*: watcher/keeper/preserver
*'āḏām*: man/mankind/humanity
*śamtanî*: you have set me/placed me/made me
*mifgā'*: target/mark/obstacle
*'ehyeh*: I am/I will be
*maśśā'*: burden/load/trouble

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

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{H8804)} 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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