King James Version
Job 7:20 in the King James Version says “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 ...” — study this verse from Job chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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?”
Job 7:20 · KJV
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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?
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine 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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“I have sinned”
H2398properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“what shall I do”
H6466to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
“unto thee O thou preserver”
H5341to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“why hast thou set”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“against thee so that I am a burden”
H4853a burden; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire
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