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18 What is he that you should inspect him every morning
    and examine him every moment?
19 Why don’t you stop looking at me
    long enough to let me swallow my spit?[a]
20 If I sin, what can I possibly do to you
    since you insist on spying on people?
    Why do you make me your target?
    I’ve become a burden even to myself.

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  1. Job 7:19 English equivalent of this verse difficult.

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.