Job 7:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰I 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 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Job 7:11-12
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. …
Psalms 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Contrition Conviction Depravity of Man Enquiring of God God Guilt

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-21)

Job here reasons with God, I. Concerning his dealings with man in general (Job 7:17, 18): What is man, that thou shouldst magnify him? This may be looked upon either, 1. As a passionate reflection upon the proceedings of divine justice; as if the great God did diminish and disparage himself in contending with man. “Great men think it below them to take cognizance of those who are much their inferi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. I have sinned--Yet what sin can I do against (“to,” Job 35:6) thee (of such a nature that thou shouldst jealously watch and deprive me of all strength, as if thou didst fear me)? Yet thou art one who hast men ever in view, ever watchest them--O thou Watcher (Job 7:12; Da 9:14) of men. Job had borne with patience his trials, as sent by God (Job 1:21; 2:10); only his reason cannot reconcile the…