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20 If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind?
    Why have you made me (A)your mark?
    Why have I become a burden to you?
21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
    and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in (B)the earth;
    you will (C)seek me, (D)but I shall not be.”

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20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,(A)
    you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?(B)
    Have I become a burden to you?[a](C)
21 Why do you not pardon my offenses
    and forgive my sins?(D)
For I will soon lie down in the dust;(E)
    you will search for me, but I will be no more.”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 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.