Devine Scripture

Job 7:20

Job chapter 7 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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?

Context

v.19How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

v.20This passage

v.21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 14:16

    But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?

  • Psalms 21:12

    For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.

  • Job 22:5

    Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

  • Job 13:26

    For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:

  • Job 31:33

    If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

  • Job 33:9

    I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me: