Job 7:20

World English Bible (2000)

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?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
  • Neh 9:6 : 6 You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
  • Job 7:11-12 : 11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. 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 sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
  • Job 9:29-31 : 29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, 31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall 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 But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?
  • Job 16:12-14 : 12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. 13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground. 14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
  • Job 22:5 : 5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
  • Job 31:33 : 33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
  • Job 33:9 : 9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
  • Job 35:6 : 6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

    15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

  • 19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

    7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

  • Job 13:23-24
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    23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

    24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

  • Job 7:11-12
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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 bitterness of my soul.

    12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

  • 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.

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    3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

  • Ps 51:3-4
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    3 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

    4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

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

  • Job 14:16-17
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    16 But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?

    17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

  • 6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

  • Job 9:28-29
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    28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

    29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

  • 32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

  • 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.

  • 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

  • 35 "Yet you said, 'I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.' "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

  • 3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

  • 9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

  • 2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

  • 22 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 8 David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."

  • 26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

  • 20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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

  • 4 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

  • 6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

  • 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • 7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

  • 15 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

  • 1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • 5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

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

  • 6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'

  • 3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

  • 13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

  • 20 See, Yahweh; 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.

  • 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

  • 7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

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