20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,(A)
    you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?(B)
    Have I become a burden to you?[a](C)

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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.

20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

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20 Have I sinned?
What have I done to You, (A)O watcher of men?
Why (B)have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden [a]to myself?

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  1. Job 7:20 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Jewish tradition to You

12 All was well with me, but he shattered me;
    he seized me by the neck and crushed me.(A)
He has made me his target;(B)

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12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

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12 I was at ease, but He has (A)shattered me;
He also has taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces;
He has (B)set me up for His target,

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13     his archers surround me.(A)
Without pity, he pierces(B) my kidneys
    and spills my gall on the ground.

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13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

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13 His archers surround me.
He pierces my [a]heart and does not pity;
He pours out my gall on the ground.

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  1. Job 16:13 Lit. kidneys

12 His troops advance in force;(A)
    they build a siege ramp(B) against me
    and encamp around my tent.(C)

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12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

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12 His troops come together
And build up their road against me;
They encamp all around my tent.

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12 He drew his bow(A)
    and made me the target(B) for his arrows.(C)

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12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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12 He has bent His bow
And (A)set me up as a target for the arrow.

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