Verse 20

If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you, LORD, preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.
  • Lam 3:12 : 12 He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?
  • Neh 9:6 : 6 You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, along with all their multitude of stars, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You impart life to them all, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
  • Job 7:11-12 : 11 Job Remonstrates with God“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 the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?
  • Job 9:29-31 : 29 If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye, 31 then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
  • Job 13:26 : 26 For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.
  • Job 14:16 : 16 The Present Condition“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.
  • Job 16:12-14 : 12 I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target; 13 his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground. 14 He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.
  • Job 22:5 : 5 Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?
  • Job 31:33 : 33 if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,
  • Job 33:9 : 9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
  • Job 33:27 : 27 That person sings to others, saying:‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
  • Job 35:6 : 6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?
  • Ps 21:12 : 12 For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.