Job 7:20

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Job 7:18–21 · Berean Standard Bible

18 that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

19 Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

20 If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You ?

21 Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

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