Job 7:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ If I have sinned, what [harm] have I done You, O You Watcher and Keeper of men? Why have You set me as a mark for You, so that I am a burden to myself [and You]?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

Common English Bible

²⁰ If I sinned, what did I do to you, guardian of people? Why have you made me your target so that I’m a burden to myself?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ I have sinned; what should I do for you, O keeper of men? Why have you set me against you, so that I have become burdensome even to myself?

Job 7:20 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:6

And Ezra said: “Thou art the Lord, thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and thou preservest all of them; and the host of heaven worships thee.

Job 10:14

If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 10:2

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.

Job 10:6

that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,

Job 13:26

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

Job 14:16

For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;

Job 22:5

Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.

Job 3:24

For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

Job 31:33

if I have concealed my transgressions from men, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

Job 33:27

and he sings before men, and says: ‘I sinned, and perverted what was right, and it was not requited to me.

Job 33:9

You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.

Job 35:3

that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

Job 35:6

If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Psalm 21:12

For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.

Psalm 36:6

Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God, thy judgments are like the great deep; man and beast thou savest, O Lord.

Psalm 80:4

O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?

Lamentations 3:12

he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.