Job 7:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Thy righteousness `is' as mountains of God, Thy judgments `are' a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.
  • Neh 9:6 : 6 Thou `art' He, O Jehovah, Thyself -- Thou hast made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that `are' on it, the seas and all that `are' in them, and Thou art keeping all of them alive, and the host of the heavens to Thee are bowing themselves.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters `are' my roarings.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For arrows of the Mighty `are' with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves `for' me!
  • Job 7:11-12 : 11 Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul. 12 A sea-`monster' am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
  • Job 9:29-31 : 29 I -- I am become wicked; why `is' this? `In' vain I labour. 30 If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands, 31 Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
  • Job 14:16 : 16 But now, my steps Thou numberest, Thou dost not watch over my sin.
  • Job 16:12-14 : 12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark. 13 Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall. 14 He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
  • Job 22:5 : 5 Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.
  • Job 31:33 : 33 If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,
  • Job 33:9 : 9 `Pure `am' I, without transgression, Innocent `am' I, and I have no iniquity.
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.
  • Job 35:6 : 6 If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.

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