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Job 7:20
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Job 7:20
20I 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?
20I haue sinned, what shall I doe vnto thee, O thou preseruer of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 7:20
To sin: to transgress against God or violate his law.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
One who preserves and guards human life.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A visible sign or impression; as a verb, to notice, designate, or set a sign upon.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A load carried; a weight, hardship, duty, or responsibility; also a solemn message laid upon a speaker.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A compound of my and self, used after I, to express emphasis, marking emphatically the distinction between the speaker and unother person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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Open the full verse study24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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Open the full verse study11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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Open the full verse study6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
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Open the full verse study26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
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Open the full verse study16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
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Open the full verse study12I 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.
13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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Open the full verse study5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
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Open the full verse study33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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Open the full verse study27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
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Open the full verse study9I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
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Open the full verse study6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
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Open the full verse study4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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Open the full verse study29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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Open the full verse study6Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
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Open the full verse study12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
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Open the full verse study4O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
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