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Job 7:17-21
New Living Translation
Job 7:17-21
New Living Translation
17 “What are people, that you should make so much of us,
that you should think of us so often?
18 For you examine us every morning
and test us every moment.
19 Why won’t you leave me alone,
at least long enough for me to swallow!
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,
O watcher of all humanity?
Why make me your target?
Am I a burden to you?[a]
21 Why not just forgive my sin
and take away my guilt?
For soon I will lie down in the dust and die.
When you look for me, I will be gone.”
Footnotes
- 7:20 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads target, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 7:17-21
New International Version
Job 7:17-21
New International Version
17 “What is mankind that you make so much of them,
that you give them so much attention,(A)
18 that you examine them every morning(B)
and test them(C) every moment?(D)
19 Will you never look away from me,(E)
or let me alone even for an instant?(F)
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,(G)
you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?(H)
Have I become a burden to you?[a](I)
21 Why do you not pardon my offenses
and forgive my sins?(J)
For I will soon lie down in the dust;(K)
you will search for me, but I will be no more.”(L)
Footnotes
- Job 7:20 A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text I have become a burden to myself.
Job 7:17-21
King James Version
Job 7:17-21
King James Version
17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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?
21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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