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19 How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

20 I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome to myself?

21 Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

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19 Will you never look away from me,(A)
    or let me alone even for an instant?(B)
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,(C)
    you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?(D)
    Have I become a burden to you?[a](E)
21 Why do you not pardon my offenses
    and forgive my sins?(F)
For I will soon lie down in the dust;(G)
    you will search for me, but I will be no more.”(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.