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19 “Will you never take your eyes from me,
    or let me alone long enough to swallow my saliva?
20 If I have sinned, what harm have I done to you,
    O watcher of humanity?
Why have you designated me to be your target?
    Why have I become a burden to you?[a]
21 Why do you not pardon my offenses
    and forgive my iniquity?
For soon I will lie down in the dust;
    you will search for me, but I will be no more.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:20 Burden to you: many Hebrew manuscripts have: “burden to myself.”