Job 7:20
18 that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
19 Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You ?
21 Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You ?
- KJV
- 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?
- WEB
- 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?
- ASV
- 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?
- DARBY
- Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself?
- BLB
- [If] I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You set me to [be] a target for You and [why] should I be a burden to [You]?
- ÅB
- Har jeg syndet, hva ondt gjorde jeg da mot deg, du menneskevokter? Hvorfor har du gjort meg til skive for deg, så jeg er meg selv til byrde?
- OTB
- Har jeg syndet? Hva har jeg gjort mot Deg,
Menneskehetens vokter?
Hvorfor har Du gjort meg til Ditt mål,
Slik at jeg er en byrde for meg selv? - B1930
- Har jeg syndet, hvad ondt gjorde jeg da mot dig, du menneskevokter? Hvorfor har du gjort mig til skive for dig, så jeg er mig selv til byrde?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Lamentations 3:12
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
Read in contextPsalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
Read in contextJob 3:24
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
Read in contextJob 7:11–12
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Read in contextPsalms 21:12
For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
Read in contextJob 16:12–14
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
Read in contextNehemiah 9:6
You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.
Read in contextJob 33:9
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
Read in context