Add parallel Print Page Options

18 Why examine them every morning
and test them every moment?
19 Won’t you ever take your eyes off of me,
at least long enough for me to swallow my spit?

20 “Suppose I do sin — how do I harm you,
you scrutinizer of humanity?
Why have you made me your target,
so that I am a burden to you?

Read full chapter

18 that you examine them every morning(A)
    and test them(B) every moment?(C)
19 Will you never look away from me,(D)
    or let me alone even for an instant?(E)
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,(F)
    you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?(G)
    Have I become a burden to you?[a](H)

Read full chapter

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.