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18 so that[a] you visit him every morning,[b]
you test him every moment?[c]
19 How long[d] will you not turn away from me?
Or not leave me alone until I swallow[e] my spit?
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity?
Why have you made me as a target for yourself,
so that[f] I have become a burden to myself?[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:18 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 7:18 Literally “for mornings,” or “at mornings”
  3. Job 7:18 Literally “for moments,” or “at moments”
  4. Job 7:19 Literally “Like what”
  5. Job 7:19 Or “my swallowing”
  6. Job 7:20 Hebrew “and”
  7. Job 7:20 Some translations translate as “you” (e.g., ESV, NRSV, NIV, NET)