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Job 7

Job 7:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have sinned
chata' (Hebrew #2398)
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
KJV usage: bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.
Pronounce: khaw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
; what shall I do
pa`al (Hebrew #6466)
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
KJV usage: commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
Pronounce: paw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
unto thee, O thou preserver
natsar (Hebrew #5341)
to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
KJV usage: besieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man).
Pronounce: naw-tsar'
Origin: a primitive root
i of men
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
? why hast thou set
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
me as a mark
miphga` (Hebrew #4645)
an object of attack
KJV usage: mark.
Pronounce: mif-gaw'
Origin: from 6293
j against thee, so that I am a burden
massa' (Hebrew #4853)
a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire
KJV usage: burden, carry away, prophecy, X they set, song, tribute.
Pronounce: mas-saw'
Origin: from 5375
to myself?
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Psa. 36:6• 6Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast. (Psa. 36:6)
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Lam. 3:12• 12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. (Lam. 3:12)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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I have sinned.
Job 9:29‑31• 29Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
 30If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
 31Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me. (Job 9:29‑31)
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Job 13:26• 26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth; (Job 13:26)
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Job 14:16• 16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? (Job 14:16)
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Job 22:5• 5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end? (Job 22:5)
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Job 31:33• 33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, (Job 31:33)
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Job 33:9,27• 9I am clean without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me;
 27He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me; (Job 33:9,27)
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Psa. 80:4• 4Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thine anger smoke against the prayer of thy people? (Psa. 80:4)
O thou preserver.
Neh. 9:6• 6Thou art the Same, thou alone, Jehovah, who hast made the heaven of heavens, and all their host, the earth and all that is therein, the seas and all that is therein. And thou quickenest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. (Neh. 9:6)
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Psa. 36:6• 6Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast. (Psa. 36:6)
why hast.
Job 7:12• 12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me? (Job 7:12)
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Job 6:4• 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed against me. (Job 6:4)
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Job 16:12‑14• 12I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
 13His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man. (Job 16:12‑14)
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Psa. 21:12• 12For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face. (Psa. 21:12)
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Lam. 3:12• 12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. (Lam. 3:12)
I am.
Job 7:11• 11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (Job 7:11)
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Job 3:24• 24For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters. (Job 3:24)
• The appeal in view of sin (vers. 20, 21). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• At last Job will speak of his sin, though most briefly. “I have sinned;” but it is not the true acknowledgment of penitence, rather a hypothetical statement. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself?