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18 visit them every morning,
    test them every moment?
19 Will you not look away from me for a while,
    let me alone until I swallow my spittle?
20 If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity?
    Why have you made me your target?
    Why have I become a burden to you?

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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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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.