Job 7:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

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  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
  • Neh 9:6 : 6 You alone are the LORD; You have made the heavens, the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts, the earth and everything on it, the seas and all that is in them, and You preserve them all; the host of heaven worships You.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison which drinks up my spirit; the terrors of God have arrayed themselves 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 monster, that you set a watch over me?
  • Job 9:29-31 : 29 If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands thoroughly; 31 Yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
  • Job 14:16 : 16 For now You number my steps; do You not watch over my sin?
  • Job 16:12-14 : 12 I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target. 13 His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.
  • Job 22:5 : 5 Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities infinite?
  • Job 31:33 : 33 If I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my heart;
  • Job 33:9 : 9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me;
  • Job 35:6 : 6 If you sin, what do you do against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 Therefore, you shall make them turn their back; you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against their face.

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    14If I sin, then You mark me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

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    19How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

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    7You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Your hand.

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    3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;

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    3For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

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    18For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

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    16For now You number my steps; do You not watch over my sin?

    17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You sew up my iniquity.

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    6If you sin, what do you do against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

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    75%

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    29If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?

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    32That which I do not see, teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

  • Mic 7:9
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    9I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

  • Job 7:17
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    17What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him?

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    3For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?

  • Prov 20:9
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    9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • Job 10:2
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    2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

  • Lam 1:22
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  • 1 Chr 21:8
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    26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

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    74%

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

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    74%

    4I said, LORD, be merciful to me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.

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    73%

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    73%

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  • Job 13:19
    73%

    19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

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    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

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    73%

    1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

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  • Job 15:13
    73%

    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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    73%

    6Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

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    3If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who can stand?

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    20Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

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    4For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.