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18 That (A)You [a]examine him every morning
And test him every moment?
19 [b](B)Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,
Nor let me alone until I swallow my spit?
20 (C)Have I sinned? What have I done to You,
O (D)watcher of men?
Why have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?

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  1. Job 7:18 Or care for, cf. Ps 8:4
  2. Job 7:19 Lit How long will You not

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)

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  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.