17 “What is mankind that you make so much of them,
    that you give them so much attention,(A)
18 that you examine them every morning(B)
    and test them(C) every moment?(D)
19 Will you never look away from me,(E)
    or let me alone even for an instant?(F)
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,(G)
    you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?(H)
    Have I become a burden to you?[a](I)

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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.

17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

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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